GERMAN PLOTS IN INDIA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11957, 16 March 1917, Page 7

GERMAN PLOTS IN INDIA.

WHY THE SCHEMES MISCAJmiBJ>. LONDON, January 6. Hir Charles Cleveland, Director of Criminal Intelligence and Secret Service in Jndiff, has {given, some interesting particulars of German plots in India to Router's Agency:- - "Ever since the war broke out-,"' he said, "our enemies have published exaggerated accounts ol" the unrest in India. They hoped that their exaggerations would materialise 1 , and they wished, for serious trouble in India. fo earnestly that they almost thought it, was faking place. r l'luvre has been some trouble, bub it has fallen very far short both oi the picture drawn in enemy publications and of the enemy desire. The. state of India- all through the. war seems to have exposed a very big miscalculation on thn_ nan. o; the I do not think, that m India, itself much direct. German work was carried out before the war._ Alter the war broke out the Gorman flovernmeut showed a, -willingness to spend, money lavishly on Indian trouble. "For the iirst few months of the war the Germans waited for the Indian storm to come or itself, a.s t'hey ha<l been led to believe that it would come. The Germans based extravagant hopes on Turkey's intervention, but 'the Indian Mohammedans as a whole took this wit 1 l extraordinary ealm and resignation. ''Disappointed by these failures ol the Indian trouble to arrive automatically, tiie Genua n.s attempted direct, assistance, and turned their attention to the fiengnl revolutionary party. They collected together a regular bureau of disalteeted Indians in Germany. Gmter their advice, grandiose schemes were evolved on paper for the supply of arms, ammunition, money, and even German soldiers and: sailors to the revolutionaries in liengat and to the disaffected .Moslem fanatics. in the north of India"The schemes all. miscarried hopelessly ; remittances had a way .ol getting themselves intercepted by the wrong peoole, shins on secret German errands kept knocking up against the/ Allied warships, and most of the moves in the plot were promptly .reported to us ail along by our own .agents. Professionally, wo ax*o disappointed with the German plots for India. We had lvoned to learn a great deal from their system and methods but they seem to us 1o have been clumsy, belated. too theoretical, and based on a misunderstanding of Indian character.