Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-24
Men Who Sought Over
throw of British Rule
in India Convicted.
BACKED BY HUN
MONEY AND INTRIGUE
PIotters With Headquarters in United
States Had World For Stage of Op-
erations-German Consular Officials,
American Business Men and Others
Involved - Sentences to Be Pro-
nounced Tuesday.

San Francisco. April 24.-Sentence
eral Judge William c. Van Fleet on
twenty nine persons-Hindus. former
German consular officers. business
men and others vino were found gull
ty by jury carly today OF conspiracy
to violate the neutrality of the United
States, thru plots to foment revolution
in India
Thirty men were tried and the only
verdict Of mot guilty" was returned in
the case Of John F. Craig. head Of
the Craig shipbuilding yards, Long
Beach
Had World For Stage.
The, so-called Hindu conspiracy case
had. the world for Its stage. 1t brought
to light a movement which admittedly
was active simultaneously in many
world capitals to overthrow British
lule in the Punjab, and to extend rev
olutionary control until 1t should in
clide every principally in the vast
Indian empire. The government Of the
United States acted because 1t was al
legged that American soil was being
used to set up military expedition
the specific charge against the de-
PENDANTS. of whom there were more
than thirty. The case was more an
airing of several separate conspiracies
than detailing of one specific plot
The prosecution brought in the names
of many noted men as principals
agents or contidants in these alleged
conspiraces. Count Won Bernstorff.
former German ambassador to the
United States; his fellow countrymen.
Count Won Luxburg, formerly German
ambassador to the Argentine Repub
lie, sand DR.. Alfred Zimmerman, once
German foreign seer etary. were alleged
in the testimony to have been men
tors Of the plotters supplying funds,
advice, and the open door to men In
high places. Letters TO revolutionary
leaders claimed the support of Sir
Rabindranath Tagore. British Indian
poet, but not for war of bloodshed
Germany Provided Arms.
Gun running under German Hindu
auspices was the whole story Of the
schooner Annie Larsen and the steam
er Maverick, rs told by the govern
ment's witnesses. Evidence was Of
fered to show that the schooner left
San Diego, Cal. March S. 1918. taking
a 100000 cargo Of arms and ammuni-
.tion to the bleak island Of Socorro, off
the Lower California coast, where
the Maverick was to take over the
cargo and run 1t into Singapore. The
arms, according TO tho testimony, were
paid for by German government
agents.
The Larsen waited a month for the
Maverick but missed her and was
forced to return for supplies at Ho-
GUAM Wash, where United States
authorities seized her and her cargo.
The Maverick after waiting month
at Socorro Island proceeded for Ba-
tavia, and shortly after dropped from
sight.
German intrigue in Evidence.
German intrigue ran thru nearly
everything which the government re-
counted. According to the evidence.
the movement was directed by Secre-
tary Zimmerman, working thru the
"Ghadr' party, but presently there was
a split among the German-controlled
conspirators. Thereafter, 1t was testi
fed. hundreds of thousands Of dollars
were poured 5ut by Berlin and other