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Show BEGIN PROBE OF GENU SPy PLOTS TODAY Grand Jury Will Investigate Conspiracy to Conduct Revolution in India From United States. WOLF VON IGEL ONE OF CONSPIRATORS Evidence Found in His Papers Pa-pers Said to Have Led to Arrests; Clever Blinds Were Used. By International News Service. NEW YORK, March 7. The ever-widening ever-widening talo of foreign intrigue in America will be recounted tomorrow to the federal grand jury. The grand jury will have as its task the digestion of a mass of spy plots in possession of the government as tho result of tho arrest of Ernest Mathias Sekunna, a citizen of Germany, and Dr. Chandra Chakra-berty, Chakra-berty, a native of India. The investigation is expected to come close to revealing the inner web of the German intrigue in this country. Documents Docu-ments seized in the luxurious apartments apart-ments of the prisoners, who are accused of fomenting revolt in India, will be taken before the grand jury. A detailed examination of these papers today disclosed a connection between be-tween Wilhelmstrasss and Sekunna and Chakraberty. There were letters of introduction, in-troduction, officials stated, to prominent German-Americans and to former German Ger-man diplomatic representatives. Other papers that will be taken before the grand jury establish the fact that the defendants manufactured a nerve preparation and had correspondents in all- parts of the world, including possessions pos-sessions of the United States. Bengalese Confesses. Chakraberty, the diminutive Hindu, frankly admitted today that he had received re-ceived large sums of German money and that he was laboring to "make Germany a factor of control in the east in order to maintain a balance of power. " "In India," he said, "there has been organized the volunteer corps for insurrection insur-rection against England. The movement is strongest in Bengal, Bombay and Punjab provinces. I was born in Bengal Ben-gal and educated at the university of Calcutta, so I know something of conditions. condi-tions. "In the province of Bengal alone there are 70,000 members of the volunteer volun-teer corps who can be summoned to arms through underground channels. Once possessing arms, the Indian insurrection insurrec-tion could overpower the garrisons and drive the British out of the country." Von Igel Implicated. The eager little Bengalese was reticent ret-icent when asked what steps had been takeu to secure munitions for the rebels. The authorities learned, however, that he was in close touch with tho men who were directing the purchase and clandestine clan-destine export of guns and cartridges. The names of both Chakrabertv and Sekunna were listed in Wolf vou "Igel 's "little black book" of agents. This book was ono of tho documents taken in last year's raid of. the former offices of-fices of Captain .Franz vou Papen at No. 60 Wall street. The authorities are certain that the task of securing the munitions for the Indian revolt was that of Captain Hans Tnuscher, the German army reservist who left this country with Ambassador von Bcrnstorff. Taiisehor was the official of-ficial representative in this country of tho Krupps. He also stated quite frank-lv frank-lv some time ago that other missions which he described .is "delicate" were entrusted to him. It is believed that ono of these "delicate missions" was to purchase and export arms to various places where they could be of service to Germany. China Chosen as Base. i Captain Tauscher admitted that he had sent munitions to Mexico and elsewhere. else-where. Within a year, it was learned today, 'Continued on Page Three.) 'begin probe of ; GERMARl SPY PLOTS (Continued on Page Two.) a prominent shipping firm refused a consignment con-signment of cartridges which the Krupp agent wished sent a private person on the island of Java, a Dutch possession. At that time it was openly stated that this material of war was to be transshipped trans-shipped to China. Sekunna and Chakraberty are charged with seeking to enlist the aid of China to get arms and ammunition across the Chino-lndia border. Neither of them would admit acquaintance with Tau-scher, Tau-scher, but they and Tauscher were friends of von Igel. ; In Bridgeport, Conn., is a mammoth projectile company organized by German Ger-man interests. For a year and a half investigation by the International News Service developed de-veloped evidence that this company has been turning out thousands of projectiles projec-tiles a day. Tauscher, Captains von Papen and Boy-Ed and von Igel were in constant touch with the work of this munitions factory. It is considered more than a possibility that a part of the Tauscher shipments to South and Central America and the orient came from this plant. Further, that Sekunna and Chakraberty depended on the same source to get arms to points from which they could be smuggled into India. Eeporta from the county clerk's office show that the prisoners on February 23 last took out trade style certificates to do business as the "Oriental Societv, " the "Oriental Kitchen" and the "Oriental "Ori-ental Eeviow. 11 The "Review, " it was stated, would publish a monthly magazine devoted to finance, science, literature, politics and commerce, especially of India, Japan, Persia and Turkey. The " society "" and tho "kitchen" were to be conducted at No. 17 West Seventy-seventh street, one of the two handsome houses owned by the pair. The federal officials received information informa-tion today tending to indicate that Lieutenant Kobert Fay is at present in northern Mexico engaged in propaganda propa-ganda work. Fay is the mysterious young German army officer who escaped from the federal prison at Atlanta, where he was sent for attempting to blow up ships in the harbor of New York. Local department of justice agents said they had never heard of I'hilip Howe, arrested in Cuba in eorjntvtiou with the present revolt in the island republic. |