GERMAN PLOTS IN INDIA

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 97, 26 April 1916, Page 6

GERMAN PLOTS IN INDIA

COiVTIIABAND-RUNNING

ONE OF THE VESSELS Z'SED REACHES LYTTELTOX.

Within tlie space of an. hour the ; largo American schooners Commerce and Annie Larsen arrived at Lyttelton on Thursday from Pacific Slope ports, with their decks piled up high with lumber (reports the Christchnvch Star of Saturday). There was nothing unusual about the Annie Larsen, a three-masted schooner, although her deck load and the fact that she once had been waterlogged were the subjects of no little com- \ ruent from the shipping fraternity. ■ Rumor had it, however, that in view j of certain information received by the \ authorities the Annie Larsen would be subject to a special examination by the police. That there was some truth in tue : information was undoubted, for on the vessei passing through the Heads \ it v.as observed that the tug took her past the usual anchorage off Camp Bay to a position directly opposite Fort Jervois, where it was understood ; a strict watcli was kept until the j authorities had satisfied themselves j concerning the craft. Much reticence j was observe1'!, and not until the Com- \ wrco had been, "cleared" was any at- I te'/ipt maJe by the authorities to \ board the Anuie Larsen. As soon as i the port' Health Officer had granted: pratique. Sergeant Jackson md De- '■ tective (Juartertnain boarded llui iT»ft and attended to their duties, as^ in- ; strnoted. Subsequently the officers . left the vessel and came ashore. ;

Officially nothing, could be ascertained as to the reason for the vigilance of the authorities, but information elicited from various sources revealed the fact that some time back the vessel had oven engaged in. the contraband trade in the Pacific, references to which were cabled to New Zealand from San Francisco last week.

it was reported that the master who wsis. in charge of the vessel at that timo was believed to be of German extraction. The latter eventually left the ship when she returned to an I American port through shortage of food, the plans having gone wrong. 1 Although not able to hear on official authority what transpired in Lyttelton on Thursday, a reporter learned from reliable sources that those in charge of the investigation had no de- : sire to cast any suspicion on the ( integrity of the present master, Cap- ; tain Verzon, and his wifo, who only ! joined the craft a few hours before j she continual her voyage to New Zealand. A cable message from San Francisco, dated April 20th. stated: "The investigations here so far have not disclosed any connection of the German Consul Bopp with the plot to incite 5 rebellion in India, as revealed by the t arrests of Germans, Hindus, Turks, j and others on the American steamship j China. The two American vessels | Maverick and Annie Larson, laden j with guns and portions of a sub- j marine, cleared here- for an Indian j destination, with the object of stirring 1 uo rebellion, but one was interned n,t j B:'.tayia, and the other was seised by American officials before she quitted American waters. The proofs of Bopp's connection with these activities } arp now in American hands. T.vo { Hindus, revolutionists, taken off -ilio Maverick, were sentenced by the British .'tutlioritios to fifteen years' imprisonment at Shanghai for inciting a revolution." The two \essels, it was rcvently stated, were to have mot at a

rendezvous in tho Northern ■ Pacific, Johnston's Island.

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