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Show CONSPIRATORS BEING TRACEB Foreigners in a Plot Against American Factories Must Leave. Washington, Nov. 14. The federal government will strike in two ways when it moves to break up the conspiracy con-spiracy now alleged to exist to destroy munition factories and create labor troubles in order to hamper the shipment ship-ment of munitions to the allies. It will proceed through diplomatic channels chan-nels by handing exequaturs to every consular representative of a foreign government who is connected with the plots, and it will prosecute through the department of justice every ev-ery civilian agent against whom it obtains sufficient evidence. It was learned from a high authority author-ity tonight that the government will not take another open step against those alleged to be concerned in the conspiracy until it is prepared to stamp out their activities by wholesale whole-sale arrests simultaneously all over the country. Department of justice officials make no secret of the fact that at present scores of men many of them representatives of foreign governments are under constant surveillance sur-veillance by agents of the United States. Must Leave Country. Just how soon this government will act is a secret, not known even to many of the department officials. They know, however, that when Attorney At-torney General Gregory and President Presi-dent Wilson are satisfied that enough evidence has been obtained to convict all the civilians implicated in the courts, the order for the wholesale arrests will go forth. At the same time the state department will make out several exequaturs and some representatives rep-resentatives of the foreign governments govern-ments whose names have been mentioned men-tioned in connection with the munitions muni-tions plots may have to leave this country. Department officials pointed out tonight to-night that tho government is profiting profit-ing by its experience in the case of Dr. Dumba, formerly Austrian ambassador ambas-sador It was hoped that its action in asking for the recall of one official offi-cial regarded as the head of the movement move-ment to create labor troubles in plants manufacturing war munitions would serve as a warning to all others oth-ers engaged in the same activities. Officials soon learned, however, that the warning was disregarded. Way Is Cleared. The government now plans to complete com-plete its case against everyone concerned, con-cerned, from the chief plotters down to the men who do the actual work, before showing its hand. The conspiracy, con-spiracy, however, is admitted to be so great and to have so many ramifications ramifi-cations that collecting the evidence has been a long and tedious task. Optimism Op-timism in official circles 5b responsible responsi-ble for the belief that much of the evidence has been collected and that the way is cleared to getting more. District Attorney H. SnolWlen Marshall Mar-shall of New York, remained over In Washington today. He conferred further with Attorney General Gregory Greg-ory regarding the new evidence that has been uncovered that will permit now Indictments to be brought against "Lieutenant" Robert Fay and fivo others now held in New York on a charge of conspiring to destroy munition-carrying ships. The new indictments in-dictments will be drawn under a chapter chap-ter of the penal code broad onough to cover the charge of attempted murder. |
