BRITAIN UNCOVERS PLOT.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1916, Page 5

BRITAIN UNCOVERS PLOT.

- INDIAN REVOLUTION WAS PUR*' POSE OP GERMANS. ' FIVE AUSTRIAN OFFICERS CAl* '. TURED AT SEA. London, April 20. - As the roMilt of the BeiMM of G«N t own "and Austrinn subjects aboard tho . China mail liner China last February, [ while bound from Shanghai for the United State*, the intelligence depart- ! mer.t of the British Government claimt 1 to' liave uncovered a plot of immense . ramification conducted with the purpose of causing a revolution in India. .',.. t 'The American headquarters of the ', plctter is said to be on the Pacific j coast. At least one slup is known to [ have sailed from San Francisco with* f German crew and Indian conspirators '. and arms on board. j The British offiicials say they believe that Fran Bopp, the German consuls peueral at San Francisco, and other persons under federal indictments there, B participated in the plot. „ The headquarters of the plot in the

Orient was at Shanghai, and wheii the gun-running and other ma6b.inatiOna were uncovered, according to the authorities here the plotters set sail for Manila aboard the steamship China. The leaders of the plot seised dn the China are said to have 'had. in their possession also passports, which tbey destroyed. Among the men taken from the vessel wero five Austrian officers as well as a number of Germans from the German ships interned in Shanghai and other Chinese ports. The seizure of the party on the China did not end the plot, according to officials here, who declare that not all of its ramifications have yet been traced. They state that enough is known, however, to cheek any possibility of trouble in India.