El Nuevo mexicano., 1918-02-28
TAGORE AND HUN
OFFICIALS ARE
PROVED ENGAGED
IN INDIAN PLOT
Letters Seized by British
Censors Furnish the
Evidence.
JAPAN A PART
OF.THE PROGRAM
Organization Of Pam
Asiatic League a Move
to Aid the Germans.

San Francisco, Calf, Feb. 27.-Defl-
mite connection Of Sir Rabindranath
Tagore, celebrated Indian poet, and
high OFFICIALS of the German govern
ment with an alleged conspiracy to
foment revolution against British rule
in India, was established today &C.
cording to contentious OF the prosecu-
ton, by introduction into evidence at
the trial of 30 alleged conspirators OF
letters and cablegrams, seized by Brit
ish censors.
The correspondence, according to
counsel for the defendants, came into
the hands of British censors on the
way from Rye, New York, to Rotter-
dam, Copenhagen and other European
points. At the time the letters and
messages we're sent, the attorneys
contended, Rye was the temporary
headquarters Of the German embassy.
The documents had just been receiv-
ed from the state department by the
prosecution and we're introduced yes
terday when the government rested its
case. Alfred Zimmerman former Ger
man secretary Of state for German at
fairs. Count Won Luxburg, former
German ambassador to Argentina and
Count Won Bernstorff, former German
ambassador to the United States, were
the German officials implicated by the
documents, according to the conten-
ton of the prosecution.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore was impli-
Gated in the conspiracy, the prosecu-
ton maintained by a document which
went to ling Differs at Amsterdam,
from Rye.
Sir Rabindranath Tagore has come
at our suggestion" the message read.
HE said he saw Count Okruma. for
mer Japanese Premier, and Count
Terauchi, present premier. Terauchi,
was favorable. Sir Rabindranath al
so consulted a number of minor Jap
anese officials"
Poets Action Was Altruistic, Claim.
The poet winner OF. the Nobel Prize
for literature in 1913, was Interested
in the conspiracy in order to obtain a
change in the India government by
constitutional means, according to q
statement made today by Taraknath
Das, one Of the Hindu defendants. The
nACdIAL6 VI tlC HCbbd66 " OtAlCIo
was identified. An unsigned letter to
R. Sachse, Rotterdam, dated January,
q, 1916, said:
"Dr. C~hakravarty viii return to the
United States to form a new Ameri-
can committee, which win include
Ram Chandra and himself. He has
agreed to send IN agent to the West
Indies, where there are 100, 900 In
dams and also to British Guiena
Java and Sumatra, ana to conduct
secret propaganda in America. It al
SO is proposed to send a mission to
Japan DR.. C~hakravarty will get safe
conduct.
Laid Plan for Work in Japan.
DR.. Chandra X. Chakravarty and
Ram Chandra are two of the Hindu de-
PENDANTS. A letter from New York
under late of May 2, 1916, to H. Eisen-
huth, Copenhagen, which was unsign-
ed said:
Il doubt whether my health will
permit a trip to the coast. | am send
ing Rogers to Japan. We have or
ganized the PanAsiatic league, but it
win not be necessary to buy the two
Japanese dailies, as they are agree
able to our interests and they have
dcided to attack the Anglo-Japanese
Count Won Bernstorff, in writing
Rye under date of June, 1916,
to C. differs at Amsterdam, said:
THE first batch to reach its desti-
nation has reported its success. Many
are afraid that If arms are not avail
able 500 there will be a premature
uprising in India. Fifty thousand
of Why the Indians are re-
against British rule are a.
valuable. The work in Japan is going
along unusually we'll"
An anonymous letter sent from Rye
August 8, 1915. to an unknown address
asked that German officers be assign
by the foreign offices to the pur-
poses Of the writer.
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