GERMANS PLOT IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1915, Page 2

GERMANS PLOT IN AMERICA.

"ItCAXISE RISIXfIS IX INDIA A.\D HOXG KOXG. CMdej from Calcutta. deeU. that the anti-British outbreaks in India wore hak-hed in flu' United States, caused ji'iMn-rul surprise and startled ollicial circles in Washington. Possibly I lie political ,poiiie will now pay greater alt out ion to other protlcnnan -scheminjrs likely to emlbroil America which are continuously proceeding under the direction of Captain l»oy<'d, tlie Conuan Xa\al Attache. anil enipl oyoes in America of Keinian steani.-hip companies. The messages state that during the trial 01 eighty-one defendants, charged w'th conspiracy to wajje war against liis Majesty tile K:nj( Kmperor, and to overthrow by force the lawful (ioverninenl of India, a witness said lie 00-o|'ciatcd o|'ciatcd in niectiu".-; held at Sacramento t( iili-rn iu |, and afterwards joined a party ~f seventy agitators dispatched to lMi:e;ii native outbreaks at Honk' Koul; and other llritish Eastern territories. ,\ar D.i.val, lute of Oxford University, and who is now in .Switzerland, gave a ;eries of lectures for tiie malcontents in New Brunswick. The conspirators arrested in Lahore were assisted linancial'y hy Cennans.

XATIOX-WI'DK CONSPIRACY; Another phase of fierman plotting is that devoted chiefly to work ;it ajumunition and anus factories by fomenting labor disputes and strikes. The New York correspondent of tlie London Chronicle says that the Carnegie works have liecn compelled to caned important contracts became of deliberate delay on the part of the worker* due (o this cause. Me also stales that silimxt a nation-wide ,'oiivpiiacv exists lo destroy plants in event of' trouble bef ween (iVvmany and America, anil the American Coveroment ha s warned muni, lion manufi'.durcrs to have their factories heavily guarded. Some have alVeady electrically charged wire fences six Jert liij>h erected around tlieni.