y, and there gave the following outline of his plan:

"I intend to cause serious damage to vessels of the Allies leaving ports
of the United States by placing bombs, which I am making myself, on
board. These bombs resemble ordinary lumps of coal and I am planning to
have them concealed in the coal to be laden on steamers of the Allies. I
have already discussed this plan with ... at ... and he thinks favorably
of my idea. I have been engaged on similar work in ... after the outbreak
of the war, together with Mr. von ..."

[Illustration: Painting]
WOMEN AT WORK THAT MEN MAY FIGHT
The women of the world took up quickly almost every masculine task in
industry to release their menfolk for the firing line. They were
especially valuable in the munitions factories of England, as shown
above. The women in the foreground are testing shell cases for size,
while those in the background work the lathes.

[Illustration: Painting]
THE FINAL TRIBUTE
Allied airman dropping a wreath on the grave of a comrade who fell and
was buried within the German lines.

[Illustration: Photograph]
A BELGIAN MILITARY OBSERVATION BALLOON
Large numbers of these balloons, which came to be known as sausages,
were used by the Allied armies on all fronts.

The German secret service report from which the above excerpt is taken
states that the maker of the bomb was paid by check No. 146 for $150
drawn on the Riggs National Bank of Washington. A photographic copy of
this check shows that it was payable to Paul Koenig, of the
Hamburg-American Line, and was signed by Captain von Papen. On the
counterfoil is written this memorandum, "For F. J. Busse." Busse
confessed later that he had discussed with Captain von Papen at the
German Club in New York City the plan of damaging the boilers of
munition ships with bombs which resembled lumps of coal.

Free access to Allied ships laden with supplies for Vladivostok would
have been invaluable to the conspirators, and in order to obtain it
Charles C. Crowley, a detective employed by Consul-General Bopp,
resorted to the extraordinary scheme revealed in the following letter to
Madam Bakhmeteff, wife of the Russian Ambassador to the United States:

MME J. BAKHMETEFF, care Imperial Russian Embassy, Newport, R. I.: DEAR
MADAM:--By direction of the Imperial Russian Consul-General of San
Francisco, I beg to submit the following on behalf of several
fruit-growers of the State of Californi