The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-28
INTERCEPTED hun
/ LETTERS REVEAL
CRAVEN INTRIGUE
German Scheme Put Band of
PlOtters Amidst Men,
hers of Entente.
IMPLICATE BRITISH
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
Involve Noted Oriental
Statesman in Proposed
Hindu Revolt.

San Francisco, Feb. 21.--The United
states government made public here
| today intercepted German diplomatic
correspondence intended to show how
German Vaccinations carried n band OF
Hindu plotters into the private audi
ences of ministers and statesmen and
financed lavishly their aims toward
revolution in British India.
Secret papers introduced by the gov
eminent purported to show that Sir
Rabindranath Tagore, British knight
and winner of the Nobel prize for
poetry. had enlisted in the interest OF
i Counts Okuma and Terauchi former
premier and premier respectively of
Japan in the movement to establish an
Independent government in India. The
intercepted correspondence. however
was indefinite as to the connections be-
tween the japanese statesman and the
alleged Hindu cOnspirators. The name
OF WI Ting Fang, former Chinese min
lister to the United States was also
mentioned in the documents as one OF
! the persons with whom Sir Rabindra-
nath had obtained a friendly interview
Sent From Hun Quarters.
The papers were all introduced by
the government in closing its case
against the 80 defendants charged with
fomenting a revolution against a
friendly power.
The correspondence which was sent
from Washington for presenta ton
here. was. dated for the most part at
Rye, y. T.. ut one time the summer
headquarters of the German embassy.
1t recounted alleged favorable inter-
Views that Tagore had with Terauchi
and Okuma. the difficulties WI Ting
Fang found in moving favorably be-
cause of the influence of DR.. Sun Vat
Sen, former president OF China and
revealed the hitherto hidden source of
Hindu funds.
Mystery in Authorship.
Most OF the messag ges were in cryptic
phrases. Mystery surrounds the
identity Of the authors as only one OF
them was signed. that one by Count
Won Bernstorff. former German ambas-
sador to the United States, and was ad-
dressed to Alfred Zimmerman former
German foreign secretary. 1t is
known that this message as well as
others. which were alleged to have
passed between Won Bernstorff and
Zimmerman. went through the hands
ambassador to Argentine.
The identity Of the addresses are un-
known likewise. Most of the messages
| were addressed to II. Eisenmuth. Cop
enhagen: r. Sache Rotterdam, and r.
n. G. Olifors at Amsterdam. The
names of these persons have never ap-
peared in previous published reports
of diplomatic messages.
The documents were decoded by
| means Of n special diplomatic code
prepared by the German foreign office.
the key to which was given the state
| department by the German embassy
before Americas decla ration OF war.
The defense stipulated that the trans
lation Of the documents was correct.
World Ranifications.
| In addition to bringing into the con-
! spiracy the names of the world-re-
nowned men. the documents showed,
| the prosecution contended. that the
| conspiracy had ramified to all portions
| OF the world, into India, Japan. China.
Mexico, British Guinea, the West In
dies. Africa. Sumatra, Canada. South
America, Burma and other places.
| Among the activities which grew
out of the conspiracy. as recorded in
the documents. was the organization
of the -Asiatic league and other
associations: the secret publication and
distribution OF thousands and thou
i stnh