CONSCRIPTION IN AMERICA
EXTRAORDINARY PLOT TO PREVENT IT , IjW.Wj AND GERMANS SUSPECTED ELEVEN ARRESTS Washington, May 23. An extraordinary plot against coriscrip-j tion has been revealed.. The Govern--ment announces eleven arrests of tho leaders at headquarters in Texas and Virginia. Tho society was. formed inVirginia for the ostensible purpose of to-operative buying. The organisation, headquarters were in a mountain fastness. Tho members were bound by » secret oath', and the movement was backed by Germans. It planned to murder certain registration officials and TebcL against the United States. The society had obtained rifles. There was also * conspiracy in the Middle West. I.W.W. influence is. suspected. ■ ■ ■ The authorities announce that the men indicted were dealt with promptly. They threaten the sternest punishment if thern are any recurrences—Aus.-N.Z. Cabi? Assn. ANOTHER HUN INTRIGUE EXPOSED ATTEMPT TO 'EMBROIL BRITAIN AND FRANCE.
Washington, May 23. Mr. Lansing (Secretary of State) has disclosed that shortly before the Unit-, ed States declaration of war the Ger-. mans attempted to involve tho United | States in a quarrel with Britain and France through the organisation of a steamship company, whose raison d'etre was the violation of the foreign, laws governing trading with the enemy. ' Theplot is now being investigated by the Department of Justice— Ans.-N.Z. Cabl» Assn. "TO PUT THE KAISER OUT OF BUSINESS" II EVOLUTIONARY GERMAN-AMERI-CAN COMMITTEE. New York, May 23. Under tho title "Friends of the German Republic," a Provisional Reyolu- J tionary Committee of German-American.? has opened an office, with the object of. "putting the Kaiser out of business."— Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REVENUE BILL AND TARIFF INCREASES EMPOWERING/ CLAUSE DELETED. ' Washington, May 29. The Finance Committee of the Senate unanimously deleted from the Revenue Bill tho clause introduced by the House of Representatives imposing a 10 per cent, increase on the tariffs.—Ans.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.'
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5
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298CONSCRIPTION IN AMERICA Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5
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