PLOT IN MADAGASCAR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2700, 21 February 1916, Page 5

PLOT IN MADAGASCAR

ENGINEERED BY GERMANS 3y Telczraph—Press Association—Copyright , (Rec. February 20, 5.5 _p.ni.)' • Paris, February 18. The Paris "Journal's" . Antananarivo correspondent- states that a urayo German plot lias been unmaskef in Madagascar aiming at tlie poisoning and massacring of many French officers and men, high officials, and settlers, and then arming the natives and inciting a. rebellion, .and thereby it was hoped that France -would be obliged to retain a large army in the island. German Consular documents i'aye been - / discovered stating that influential natives were pro-German, and that it would be easy to stir them up. Two hundred arrests have been made. The natives remain friendly. A-GERMAN NEWS-SHEET ' . PACKED WITH LYING ARTICLES ; ByTelezrmill—Frees Association— Copyright (Rec. February .19, 7.20.p.m.) .... London, February 18. Germany is distributing, through tho Swiss Post Office, sample copios of a ; ' news-sheet called "Political Correspondence of Central Europe," and-inviting subscriptions. It is allegedly a neutral journal, published in Zurich, printed in parallel columns in English, French, Italian, and Spanish, and especially ! promising subscribers in neutral covm- | tries moderate, impartial, and truth- ! ful war news. ! The specimen copy betrays German authorship, for it is packed with impudent, lying articles, tho special telegrams consisting of false news which io is inviting the newspapers to repro" duce.