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Show GElnOOlLT INDSGTEDBY JURY FACES PROSECUTION UNDER THE CHARGE OF COMPLICITY IN MUNTIONS PLOT. Accused of Heading Conspiracy to Prevent Transportation of Munitions Muni-tions by Blowing up Railroad Rail-road Tunnels. Washington. Weeks of investigation investiga-tion by agents of the department of justice resulted in the voting of indictments in-dictments on Tuesday by a federal grand jury in San Francisco against prominent figures in what are considered consid-ered here to be two of the boldest plots involving questions of American neutrality that have been uncovered since the European war -began. Among those against whom indictments indict-ments were voted, according to a message mes-sage received here, are Franz Bopp, German consul general; Baron E. H. von Schack, vice consul of Germany, and Maurice Hal), the Turkish consul general. Consular officers do not enjoy the diplomatic immunities which ambassadors, ambas-sadors, ministers and attaches are given by international law, but are subject to the jurisdiction of the country coun-try in which they are resident. The indictments voted, however, are the first which the American government has attempted to secure ttgainst any foreign representatives. This fact was taken to mean that hereafter the administration ad-ministration means to prosecute any offender against American neutrality. Bopp and Von Schack are charged with complicity in the plot which was first uncovered several weeks ago with the arrest of C. C. Crowley, alleged to be a pro-Germau agent who had undertaken under-taken to cripple the American output of munitions of war and in other ways to help the cause of the Teutonic allies. al-lies. Bopp is accused of being the head of a conspiracy which hoped to accomplish this end by interfering with trade in munitions and preventing prevent-ing railway shipments by blowing up two tunnels on Canadian roads. The German officials are being proceeded pro-ceeded against under the Sherman anti-trust act in .connection with their alleged al-leged activities against American piants and . under a section of the penal code aimed at the setting on foot of military expeditions against a friendly nation in connection with plans to blow up Canadian railway tunnels. |