The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-28

gestures as he related the story. gave
! the authorities to understand.
whether rightly or not, that the work
mapped out for him was much broad
err than the task of tieing mines to
the rudder posts of munition ships.
Comes to America.
Fay said he received a passport and
departed for this country In April.
that when he reached this city he
called upon DR., Kienzle, whom he
never had met before, and introduced
himself by telling to DR.. kienzle the
contents OF the letter which the lat
ter had written to his father Through
the information that Fay alone pos
sessed he gained the closest confi-
dence of DIR. Kienzle: Il wanted to
stop the export of ammunition from
this country" he said. Il had been
in the trenches and had seen men
killed by the shells. | figured out
that every twenty shells killed at least
one man. | knew that by preventing
n single ship from reaching the allies
saved the lives OF SO many German
soldiers That was my aim
This story Of the young lieutenant,
taken in connection with statements
from other sources. that ne toid Paui
Seth that he planned to blow up
fered $4,000 bride for any Russian
ship carving copper are taken "a
proof that Fay had q much proaner
field OF work than, until To-Day ho
even v-ould him a..
And Fay admitted today that ne was
ready TO pay Seth or anybody else VINO
could turn the trick for me sSoo.ooo ny
delivering a ship of copper "ith'h 'ho
reach OF German warshlps.
To
pf Fav. the authorities do not believe
that he is telling all he knows Ihey
assert that he is protecting persons
higher UP In this country even thoukn
he has dared to do what no other yer
man agent under arrest has admitted
namely, tell that he worked unoer the
Jurisdiction of German ofhcers'
other Arrests to Come.
On the basis of stories told by Fay
and Information gathered from Fay's
associates. other arrests are expected.
The clue is leading to the men VINO
have been handling German money IN
this country, to the men VINO nave
expended many millions OF dollars mere
in propaganda, passport frauds ana
other lines
While Fay. who came to ms coun-
try with specific instructions from 'he
German secret Office. Is hiding the
try. it is expected that there may
he i,nportnnt arrests bearing on the
financial end in the near future. Inc
facts atvulged by this investigation
can be pieced together by the directing
heads in Washington with hundreds OF
bits Of other information gathered
throughout 'the country by secret ser
vice men and investigators OF the pe-
partment OF Justice since the beginning
of the war,
that the men who furnished the
money for Fay and Scholz. or were as
soetated with the enterprises as
charged against Max Breitung, VINO
arrived today and surrendered himsei1.
pr Ktenzle and Paul Daesche, VIII De
called to face an equally grave charge
Ia the statement of the Federal au-
thorities.
Federal authorities do not believe ray
and scholtxs statement to the ehect
that they wished merely to blow on
the rudder of the munition ships. was
obtained from Captain Harold {, WOOD
ward. Of the corps Of engineers. an ex.
pert In high explosives ana hifnseih
the inventors of gelatineous tri-nitro'
toluol.
Captain Woodward said that II tins
amount of high explosives. either tri'
nitro toluol. or an explosive made from
chlorate of potash and henzol. were
exploded at the rudder OF ship,
would not merely blow on the rudder.
He said:
THE explosion of such large
amount of high explosive would blow
off the end OF a ship, II would tear
the seams OF the ship for thirty or
forty feet. and II the decorating wave
reached the other explosives on the
ship, there simply would be nothing
left of the vessel
In other words, the charge in the
governments complaint against the hve
men now under arrest charged Win
conspiring to destroy a snip, means
exactly that with all the logical con-
sequences to the lives on board