Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-18
SHIP THAT TOOK ARMS
SAID TO BE MAVERICK
Former Lieutenant of Kaiser's Army
Reported Bidder for Ship at
San Francisco.
BRITISH FEARED FOR INDIA
But Vessel Held UP in Java Sea by
Dutch Warship Was Believed
Bound for q. S. Islands-Was
Searched July 81.

While no direct COnhrmat1on
could be obtained in Washington
today of the report printed in yes
terdav's Star that German ofti-
cials have sought to bring about
a seditious uprising in the Philip
pine Islands against the govern
nent of the United States, cer-
tain corroborative circumstances
turned up, from widely separated
quarters, tending to give color to
the story that German agents at
tempted to ship arms and am
munition to the Philippines two
months ago for the alleged at
tempt at sedition. The report has
interested Washington govern
ment departments, in connection
with the charges OF the New York
World that German officials have
been spending 100000 a week
in the United States for secret
diplomatic efforts which might
have the result of involving the
United States in the war
Confederation of the statement
that an American oil steamship
bound from the Pacific coast of
the United States to the far east
was held UP under mysterious
circumstances by a Dutch war
ship in the Java sea July 27, as
stated in The Star yesterday, was
obtained today by search of the
records. The ship was the
Maverick, and she was brought to
Batavia, Java, by the Dutch war
ship, and after a search was al
lowed to proceed.
Two Germans Suspected.
1. was disclosed today that officials of
the British embassy some time ago
called the attention Of the State De-
partment to the activities of two Ger
mans in the Philippines. They were
suspected of being concerned in plot,
it was said, to smuggle arms and am
munitions from the United States to
Germans in India, but not much stock
is taken in stories of attempts to
smuggle arms and ammunition into
India by way of Java, for which the
Maverick was said to be bound, for
the reason that the Java sea route
would be far out of the way for ship
designing to land cargo in India, and
would. in fact, be much nearer some
OF the Philippine Islands.
That there has been German activity
of more than one secret kind in the
Philippines seems evident today from
q report that President Wilson, accord
ing to the Providence Journal, has re-
Quested that newspaper to lay before
secretary Daniels and the members Of
the neutrality board information con-
cerning q proposal made by the Tele-
funken Wireless Company. a German
corporation. to place wireless stations
In the Philippine Islands. in accord
ance with maps supplied them 'in
confidence" by the German foreign
Office.
Other Information said to have been
laid before Secretary Daniels in this
connection had to do with alleged at
1empts some time ago by Germans to
gain information about United states
fre-control systems on battleships.
Another charge presented to Secre-
tary Daniels is to the effect that a
civilian employed in the electrical
service of the Navy Department has
been in the pay of the German gov
ernment The latter charge. it is un-
nection with the charge made yester-
day that two employees of the State
Department and four employees of the
Treasury Department are reported to
II is at times officially denied that in
designations are being made. it is not
doubted that these reports multiplied
day by day, are receiving importa mt
attention.
Wireless Charge Probed.
There were no developments today in
the report that a wireless station in
the northwest part of Washington is
taking off, messages to and from Ar
ington which might interest the Ger
man government, but Secretary Daniels
pf the Navy Department and Acting
Secretary Sweet of the Department of
Commerce both are investigating the
charge.
The United States oil steamship Nav
erick, which was held up as q suspect
by a Dutch warship in the Java sea
July 81, was said, in Associated Press
dispatches from San Francisco at that
ime, to have been engaged for some
ime in missions of which shipping men
profess to know little.
Ii was at one time believed that thif
essel was concerned in attempts to
axe arms and ammunition to Mexico
par: of what was charged Ger
nan plot to bring about conditions ir
1exico inimical to the interests of the
jnited States. The Philippine repor,
nd the Mexico report, as stated ir
rhe Star yesterday, are on all fours
he charge having been made that Ger