Dec. 4--_Tynningham_, two fires on ship. Dec. 24--_Alston_, dynamite found in cargo. Dec. 26--_Inchmoor_, fire in hold. 1916 Jan. 19--_Sygna_, fire at sea. Jan. 19--_Ryndam_, bomb explosion at sea. Jan. 22--_Rosebank_, two bombs in cargo. Feb. 16--_Dalton_, fire at sea. Feb. 21--_Tennyson_, bomb explosion at sea. Feb. 26--_Livingston Court_, fire in Gravesend Bay. April saw the round-up of the group who had been working under the Hamburg-American captains, and although numerous fires occurred during May, 1916, in almost every case they were traced to natural accidents. The number mounted more slowly as the year advanced. With the entrance of America into the war, and the tightening of the police cordon along the waterfront, the chance of planting bombs was still further reduced, but waterfront fires kept recurring, and until the day of ultimate judgment in Berlin, when each of Germany's arsonists in America comes to claim his reward, none will know the total of loss at their hands. It was enormous in the damage it inflicted upon cargo, but it is improbable that it had any perceptible effect upon the whole export of shells for Flanders and France. CHAPTER XII LABOR David Lamar--Labor's National Peace Council--The embargo conference--The attempted longshoremen's strike--Dr. Dumba's recall. Labor produced munitions. The hands of labor could be frightened away from work by explosions, their handiwork could be bombed on the railways, the wharves, the lighters, and the ships, but a surer method than either of those was the perversion of the hearts of labor. So thought Count von Bernstorff and Dr. Albert, who dealt in men. So thought Berlin--the General Staff sent this message to America: "January 26--For Military Attaché. You can obtain particulars as to persons suitable for carrying on sabotage in the United States and Canada from the following persons: (1) Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia; (2) John P. Keating, Michigan Avenue, Chicago; (3) Jeremiah O'Leary, 16 Park Row, New York. "One and two are absolutely reliable and discreet. Three is reliable, but not always discreet. These persons were indicated by Sir Roger Casement. In the United States sabotage can be carried out on every kind of factory for supplying munitions of war." (Signed) "REPRESENTATIVE OF GENERAL STAFF."[3] So too thought von Rintelen, who hired men--usually the wrong ones.