Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-03-07
ANOTHER GERMAN
PLOT UNEiRTHED
Startling Disclosures Expected as
Result Of Raid by New
York Police.
PLOT TO INVADE INDIA
Teuton and Hindu Said to Have
Planned Invasion Through China
Two Arraigned in Hoboken
Court.

New York, March 7.--Dr. G. Hama
!dor Chakiaberty, d Hindu physician,
and DR.. Ernest Sckunner, thirty-four
years old, described as a German, were
arrested on charges of conspiracy to
set up a military expedition against a
foreign country on friendly relations
with the United States. The police say
the men confessed that they had plot
ted under direction of Wolf Won Igel
to invade India by way of China.
Won Igel, former secretary Of Capt.
Won Papen, German military attache,
was indicted but never tried for COM
plicity in an alleged plot to destroy the
Welland canal. He is with Count Won
Bernstorff, former German ambassa-
dor to the United States, on the steam
er Frederik VIII, now approaching
Copenhagen.
Got $4,000 From Won ieel.
From Won Igel, according to the po-
lice, Doctor Chakiaberty and Sckun-
ner, who have been suspected for some
time, received 100000, and the Hindu,
posing as Persian merchant, obtained
passport, which enabled him to get
to Berlin. In this connection an addi-
tional charge of fraudulently obtaining
passport has been made against the
physician.
Doctor Chakiaberty, according to the
confession attributed to him. revealed
his plans of an invasion of India to
certain officials in Berlin, then re-
turned toSNew York, where he and Won
Igel prepared printed matter in various
native Indian languages. In the
house in West One Hundred and
Twentieth street, where the two men
were arrested, the police seized large
quantities of this and found alsoa COM
plete chemical laboratory.
Sought connivance Of China.
After the printed matter was pre-
pared, the police say, Doctor Chakia-
berty and Sckunner employed as their
agent an influential Chinaman, whom
they sent to his native country with
the idea of interesting his government
In plan to ship arms and ammunition
from the United States to China,
where, with the Chinese governments
permission, they We're to be stored un-
til the time set for the invasion.
The police say the two men admit
they have heard nothing from their
Chinese representative, and do not
know what. successful any, he had.
Device to Disguise contraBahd!1s
i In the laboratory Sckunner was en-
deavorinA according to. the police re-
port. to compound a preparation to be
used ITO disguise contraband Of war"
The character Of this preparation he
refused to disclose. Ten thousand
small aluminium boxes, about tie size,
Of a piEgSsx We're Seized, with what
appesged to be official papers. The let
tiers have been turned over to govern
ment agents.
Two fArraioned at Hoboken.
Hoboken, n. j., March Fritz
Kolb, a German, in whose possession
two bombs and other explosive materi-
al were found yesterday, and Hans
Schwartz, arrested this morning, were
held for further examination in court
in connection with an alleged plot to
blow up, munition manufactured for
the entente allies.
Schwartz, who says he is a chemist,
thirty-seven years old, was held as a
suspicious person. The police assert
he has worked in hotels and cafes in
HObOken Mt various times.
He made long statement to Police
Chief Hayes, in which he revealed, the
police say, plans for another explosion
at Black Tom, N. j., with Kolb and