The Alaska citizen., 1917-02-05
AN ATTEMPT I II CAUSE UPRISING
 IS FRUSTRATED

Associated Press Correspondencc)
 LONDON.-After nearly two years of silence regarding the situation in Afghanistan. where it was known that German agents had been actIyc in the early days of the war, the Brit ish government has issued an aC count of the failure of the alleged German plot for a great Afghan up rising. The sponsors of the scheme, i it is said, expected little difficulty in obtaining the assistance of the Ameer of Afghanistan, and planned that the uprising would spread quickly across the borders into India. The Ameer, however, dismissed the German emissaries, refusing to have anything to do with their plots or their offers.
 The British governments account do Si'eI III lI4C LOu9t OA tOiiI1tOh9 by Austen Chamberlain, secretary of state for India, is as follows:
 Tn the spring of 1915 the German government decided to send a mi5- sion to Afghanistan. For this pur- pose they selected from among number of Indian anarchists i'll Der lin a young landowner from Oudh, who posed to them as a ruling chief, and as such was received in audience by the emperor.
 This person was accompanied by party of German officers, some Turks and another Indian anarchi.t, {, Moslem The principal German off cer, Lieutenant von Hentig, was the bearer of a letter from the German chancellor to the Amee., in which the latter was invited to advise the pretended rajah how best India might be liberated from British tyranny.
 Won Hentig was also charged to make important revelations to the Ameer regarding the relations which the German government hoped would in future exist between AfGhaai5tun, Germany. Austria Hungary, and Tur- key.
 The mission broke up In Persia, and succeeded in making it's way in small parties into Afghauistan In the late summer. They were arrested ou arrival and eventually conveyed to Kabnl towards the end of the year There is reason to believe that the Ameer and his people quickly ap praised these Germans and the In dian adventures by whom they were accompanied, at their true value.
 Tt is true that the intervention of Turkey under German influence creat- ed a complication. and placed his his majesty the Ameer in an eX- ceedingly difficult position,
 But at the outbreak of the war his majesty gave the viceroy ot India the most solemn assurances of his intention to preserve the ncu trality of his country, and it is with great satisfaction that I acknowledge on behalf of his majesty's govern meut the loyalty of the Ameer to his pledged word as sacred to the true Moslem as to ourselves.
 His majesty has firmly refused the inducements-as seductive as they are unreasonable out to him to induce him to forsake his ally, and has used his influence to prevent disturbances on the frontier.
 "The Ameer dismissed the mission in May last. It would not be in the public interest to state what has be come of the various members, but some of them have been captured by the Russians and the British after leaving Afghanistan.
 "The estates of the Indian land owner have been sequestrated by the government of India.
 Letters were also addressed by the German chancellor to a number of ruling chiefs"