LAHORE CONSPIRACY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16434, 10 January 1917, Page 8

LAHORE CONSPIRACY.

CONCLUSION OF THE TRIAL. SIX DEATH SENTENCES. . COMPLICITY OF GERMANS. ■ Australian and NZ. Cable Association. (Received 12.20 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Jan. 8. The trial has concluded of 17 persons charged in connection with the second Lahore conspiracy case. Six men wore sentenced to death, five to' imprisonment for life, one to two years' imprisonment, and five were discharged. The judgment stated that the evidence proved the complicity of German Consular agents in the United States. The Court was fully satisfied that the- United States was the thief centre of the movement for the overthrow of British rule in India. Plans were laid there for war, murder, and rapine.

In the first trial at Lahore 81 .persons wero charged with conspiracy against tho Government of India. The evidence bore out the statement of the prosecuting counsel that the revolutionary conspiracy was {or the overthrow of British rule by the .. following means:— ~. ... (1) The seduction of Indian soldiers honHheir allegiance to the King-Emperor, and to cause them to mutiny and to join in rebellion and to furnish arms and munitions : , (2) The collection of arms, men, and munitions, and also money, for the purchase of arms and munitions: (3) The obtaining of money for me same purpose by means of forcing and robbing Government treasuries, and by (lacoifes, necessarily involving the J" murder of police and other officials who - interfered with the carrying out of the conspiracy; ; = ~. - \ . , ,- (4) As soon as the rebellion start ed, • the murder of all civil • Europeans, tho wrecking of trains and railway bridges, :-V*sudden-attack on and the killing of .' • all His Majesty's European troops; ' •-> (5) The production and circulation of '■•■ seditious literature, the delivery of sedi- / tious speeches, and exhortations to the ;~ Tebekj:''.;';■.'. • ,, •, ~.. j .,_.<-"