The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-09
Brush Suspecied
Hogan Passengers
Of Plot m India
Men Aboard Disabled Schooner
Sought For Same Pitkia As
+. China Thirfy-eight

1t has been learned here that passcn.
gers aboard the schooner Hugh Hogan,
towed into San Francisco April 3 by
the Coast Guard cutter Bear in n dis
abled condition, were being sought by
the British, under suspicion o. having
been implicated in antiBritish plots in
India. The Hogan had five passengers
How many Of them were wanted is not
known. That. they were under suspi
cion has not been made public before
sailed from Shanghai February 3 for
Seattle, ,r VI, b..
Mention, of Shanghai would connect
these Germans, In the British mind, at
least, with those removed from the
China Mailer China by the. British
auxiliary Larentie out of Woosung
February IS. Information, received here
is that they were suspected of being
implicated in the same plot, If any ex-
isted- r"yr ~. an.a 7,..
May Come Through Here
Decision of Great Britain TO comply
with the American demand that these
and two Turks be freed, announced last
week, probably means that the men
will come through here ON their way
to- the States, resuming the trip thus
summarily stopped. II is probable that
they were taken to Australian Ieten.
ton camps, as attempted ESCAPES at
Hongkong he'd to Germans being trans
4 feTred to Australia. f ,-~- u,n,..
4 Emphatic assertions were made by
England that proof of the Germans
connection with the plot was known. 1t
seems to come back to the old Maver-
ick-Annie Larsen tHngle. Brief AssO-
eiated Press dispatches told of the
| British stand. These are amplifcd~by
mail adviccs from the Coast.
OF Immense Ramifications
AS the result of the seizure of Ger.
man and Austrian subjects aboard the
China mail liner China last February
while bound from. Shanghai for the
United States, the intelligence depart
ment of the British Government said
it had uncovered a plot of immense
notifications conducted with the pur.
pose of causing a revolution in India
The American headquarters Of the
plotters is said to be on the Pacific
coast. At least one ship is known to
have sailed from San Francisco with
a German crew apd Indian conspira
tors and arms on board. (Ths un
doubtedly refers to the Maverick.)
The British officials say they be
lieve that Franz Bopp, the Germa I
consul-general at San Francisco, and
other persons under federal indiet
ments there, participated in the plot.
The headquarters of the plot in the
Orient was at Shanghai, and wheI
the gunrunning and other machihn
lions were uncovered, according t.
the authorities here the plotters sci
sail for Manila aboard the steamship
China.
Had Passports
The leaders of the plot seized OF
the China are said to have had IL
their possession also passports, which
they destroyed. Among the mel
taken from the vessel were five Aus
trian officers as we'll as number Of
Germans from the German ships in
termed in Shanghai and at other Chi
nese ports.
The seizure of the party on thu
China did not end the plot, according
to officials at London, who declare tina
not all of its ramifcations have ye
been traced. They state that enough il
known, however, to check any possibili
ty Of trouble in India.
. San Francisco officials prosecuting
Franz Bopp and others under unneutra
plot indictments, said they had NJ
knowledge of any connection by Con
sui General Bopp with a plot to incit
a rebellion in India. The Bopp prose
cution has been dropped. -
One wonders whether that unnamed
American steamer, stopped out of Ma
Mia by q British cruiser recently, as
despatch to the Hawaii Hochi announc
ed, could have been the Maverick
which should have sailed from Batavi
months ago for the Atlantic or Pacii
Coast Of the States. It is possibilit.
that has much probability about it, a
amy rate.