Imperial Valley press., 1915-11-01

ing authentic account. written by one
of Great Brtain's best known secret
agents, shows beyond question. Please
remember that this article, written by
an Englishman, gives only the English
side
BY a Member of the English Secret
Service in America.
Copyright, 1915, by the Newspaper En-
terprise Association
New York, Nov 1.-The great bomb
plot, just discovered by Uncle Sam
and alleged by his agents to be the
work of the German secret service,
was not uncovered by the American
secret service at all, as the people of
the United States today fondly be-
lieve.
This immense nation wide intrigue
was found out and uncovered by no
other agent than England's great de-
tective agency-Scotland Yard itself!
The United States is today literally
honeycombed by the most brilliant
sleuths in the roll of the English Sc
cret service.
/ know whereof | speak, for | am
one of the Englishmen who was, TO
some extent "in at the capture" of
the man styling himself Lieutenant
Robert Fay of the German army, when
he and Robert Scholz were arrested
on the heights of New Jersey while
testing bombs with which they intend
ed to blow up munition-l laden vessels
leaving the harbor of New York.
Walters and Bnrbers nv SIeutns.
These German plots, more or less
surprising to the American public at
large, and designed for the blowing
up of factories where guns, shells and
cartridges are being made, and also
ships in New York harbor, have been
worrying our secret service men for
many months. But so far the damage
done has been comparatively insignifi-
cant.
The SermaiM here are not the stck =
est of sleuths. They have enlisted
thousands of German borh walters, bar
bers and bartenderS in their American
secret service, and the employment of
these clumsy fellows has resulted in
their little games being given away
practically every time 50 far.
That England has sent over her clev-
crest Scotland Yard men to unearth
bomb plots against your shipment of
munitions is no reflection on United
States federal sleuths or American de-
tectiYes You have not enough men
here to take care of these plots, and
those you have are not trained to foil
European conspirators. We know this
game.
Our work over here is quite legiti-
mate. We are not plotting. Our de-
tectiVes cannot make arrests, but they
can, and are, tipping off the American
authorities every day.
We have sleuths working in oVeralls
at the Bethlehem Steel Works, at the
Winchester Union Metallic Cartridge
Works at Bridgeport, Conn, at the Du
Pont powder factories, and, in fact,
everywhere where munitions are being
made.
In this way we soon put a stop to
men in German pay who were tamper-
ing with explosives. Now all hands at
almost all of these places have to be
passed by English secret service men
before they are allowed to go to work.
Attempt to Bomb Train Foiled.
Other men watch the packing of all
material and guard its transportation
over the railroads to the docks at New
York. Last week on the New Jersey
Central railroad, owing to the con-
gestion of war freight, there were
nearly 15 miles of cars piled up with
locomotive parts waiting to be shipped
to VladiVostok for the Russians, laid
up in sidings
German agents tried to blow these
up but we stopped them.
We are not afraid any more of ships
being sunk by Internal machines on the
Atlantic. British naval officers and
picked steVedores from some of the
greatest docks in Great Britain super
intend the slowing away of all muni-
tions.
There are detectives on all the trans
Atlantic liners and very few undesir-
able persons pass through our block
aiding fleet unnoticed. If we know
some dangerous person has sailed from
New York we cable the fact to Eng
land, the mans name is wirelessed to
all our patrol ships, and when that
person gets into the war zone his ship
is stopped and he is nabbed by a ma
val officer. For instance:
Knew O'ConnOr Would Return.
Michael OConnor, the New York sa-
loon keeper and active member in the
Clan-na-Gael, who has just been for
hidden to land in England, no doubt
got the surprise of his life when he
reached Liverpool. But we could have
told him before he sailed from New
York that he would soon be back.
The trouble with the German secret
service here is that they write every