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Show COUPLE INDICTED AS CONSPIRATORS NEW YORK. April 1. Salindra Nath Ghose, a Hindu, and Agnes Smedley, a young woman from California, who recently re-cently were arrested here, were indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of being concerned in a conspiracy to violate th espionage and of acting as agents in this country for the Indian nationalist party, a body of alleged insurgents in-surgents opposed to government by Great Britain. With the couple were indicted Pulin B. Bose. Tarak Nath Das, Jadu Gopal Mokerjee and Bhai Bhagwan Singh, all Hindus. Bose is described In the indictment as being provisional president of the supreme 1 council of the Indian nationalist party and i the other defendants are charged with; being members of a special commission representing the insurgents. The Indictment alleges that Miss Smedley Smed-ley addressed a communication to the Japanese embassy In Washington last January regarding the affairs of the Indian In-dian party and that Bose, op March 8, sent similar communications to the Swedish secretary of state at Stockholm and the Swedish legation in Washington. |