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Show TELEPHONE LEAK CAUSES COLL APSE LONDON, Dec. 2. A plot to restore re-store imperialism and secure tho return re-turn ot Emperor William has been discovered in Berlin, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam. According to the dispatch, which was filed at Amsterdam on Fitdny, the chief men gehlnd tho plot were Field Marshal von Mackensen, General Gen-eral von Dorn and General Count Slxt von Arnlm. Largo sums ot money are said to have been placed at the disposal ot tho leaders by munition makers. I Tho plot collnpscd owing to tho fact that a Rccrct scrvlco ngont ov-crhcatd ov-crhcatd a telephone convci cation. Many arrests havo been made in lierlln and other cities, whllo tho government has long Hstb of bus-poets bus-poets who hnd planned to uolzo members mem-bers of Uio present government. J No direct evldenco ot William Ho-hcnzolLcin's Ho-hcnzolLcin's connection with tho plot has been found, It Is said, but It Is bellovcd tho outllno of the plan was brought to Berlin by two of his suits wlio recently went to the Gorman v H capital for tlio ostensible purpose of taking tho wifo ot tho former omper- Lieut. Dr. Gustv Krupp von Dolt- H len is said to have been In control iLLLH of tho financial arrangements. Field HLkkH Marshal von Mackensen is repotted HLfeBS to have attempted to Induce Field l Marshal von Illndenberg to joint, BH but tho latter whined, saying ho In- H tended to retire after the domobllt- HLHH zatlon of the army. flHftLS The wholo Prussian court, It Is aflftH stajed, was In sympathy with the EflLI plotters and It is said that Prlnco . HHH von BjcuIow and Dr Qeorg Mlchaolb 9 former Impeilnl chancellor, had pro- H mlsetl to help. Tho plnn was to or- BHH ganlzo a provisional government un- pflpHH dcr Field Marshal von Maskenson or H some other military leader and them fH urgo William Ilohenzollcrn to re- |