The United States police have arrested five Germans on the
very grave charge of conspiring to blow up American vessels carrying munitions to Allied ports. The arrests have caused much excitement, particularly as one of the prisoners, named Fay, declares that his actions were approved at Berlin. On the other hand, he says that when he consulted the German Naval and Military Attaches at Washington they advised him to transfer his scheme to Canada. Scholz, another of the prisoners, says that he and Fay had their appliances ready, but that they never actually attached a mine to an American ship. They bad attached an empty mine to a British ship as an experiment and had done their work in ten minutes. Scholz expressed the belief that ray had received £800 from the German Government. It is suggested that Mr. Wilson may send another Note to Germany. But much depends on whether the German Government are implicated or not. If their complicity were proved, the relations of the two countries would once more reach the danger-point.
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