UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1917, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

GERMAN H-OTS.

SERIOUS MSOLGSORm Washington, May 29. An extraordinary plot against conscription has been revealed. The Government announces that eleven of the leaders have been arrested at the headquarters in Texas and Virginia. The society was formed in Virginia for thei ostensible purpose of co-operative buying. The organisation has headquarters in the mountain fastness, and members are bound to secrecy by an oath. The movement is' backed by Germans and planned to murder certain registration officials and rebel against the' United States. The society Obtained rifles. * A conspiracy has also been unearthed in this Middlo West, where I.W.W. influence is suspected. The authorities announce that the men indicated were dealt with promptly, and threaten the sternest punishment in the event of the recurrences of plotting. Washington, May 29. Mr. Lansing has diclosed that, "shortly before the declaration of war, the .Germans attempted to involve the 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 laws" against foreign trading with the enemy. The plot is now being investigated by the Department of Justice. REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. AGAOiNS(r THE KAISER. New York, May 2fl. Under the title of Friends of the German Bepublic, a provisional revolutionary committee of American-Germans has opened an office. The'objeqt of the movement is to put the Kaiser .out of business. TARIFF INCREASES. . "Washington, May 29. The Senate Finance Committee .unanimously deleted from the 1800 Million Dollar Revenue Bill a clause, inserted by the House, imposing a 10 per cent, increase on present tariffs.