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Show CONSPIRATORS PLEAD GUILTY TO CHARGES SAN" FRANCISCO, Dec. B. Three of the most prominent of the thirty-four defendants de-fendants on trial charged with conspiring lo foment revolution against Britten, rule i in India, .pleaded guilty today In the I Cniied States district , court. Lieutenant Wllhelm'von Princken, former for-mer military attache of the Gorman consulate con-sulate general here ; George Kodiek, former for-mer German consul at Honolulu and at one. time president of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' association, and H. A. S'hroe-der, S'hroe-der, who succeeded Rodiek as consul at Honolulu. Lieutenant von Princken furnished the reason for the sudden change In the plans i of the former German consular agents, ! which fa me as a dramatic opening to court today. "T think we can serve our ; country best by pleading guilty and I avoiding further exposures in curt pro-i pro-i offdings," he said. "The lss said about the cases, the better ii will be for Ger-i Ger-i mimy," he said. Pate of sentence of Von Trincken was sek for Pecemher 10. ft'ehroeder and Rodiek Ro-diek will be sentenced December 15. In answpr to a question hv Judge W. C. Van Fleet, United Stales Attorney Preston said he would use one and pos-sihly pos-sihly two bf tho men as wit nsses. He also announced he would ask that consideration consid-eration be shown in imposing sentence for Jtodtok and S -breed er because they had entered their pleas. |