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Show Plots to Promote Internal Trouble Being Disclosed Almost Al-most Daily in Empire. MAY INTERN ALIENS Germans and Austrians Constantly Con-stantly Doing Underhand Work Among Mongolians. PEKING, Oct 10. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) German plots to promote Internal trouble in China are being disclosed almost dally, and the situation is so serious that China undoubtedly will find it neces- ; sary to Intern many Germans and Austrians, if not all of them, before the end of the year. Tho allied ministers are extromely uneasy over tho situation. China, with its lack of ndequato : communication and great territory, of- , fers a fine field for German plots, i For many years German agents have carried commercial undertakings in Tibet, Turkestan, Mongolia and other Interior parts of China. Consequent- ; ly they speak Chinese fluently and have great influeneo with the lower classes. Legations Supplied With Money Through tho German and Austrian legations In Peking these interior agents have been supplied with money to stir up dissension. They have aroused the Mohammedans in western China by telling them that this is a religious war designated to eliminate Turkey and Mohammedanism. " Similar Simi-lar arguments have bren used among the Mohammedans in southwestern China. Agents Stir Up Bandits In Mongolia the German and Austrian Aus-trian agents enlisted many bandits in tho monarchial movement and have done everything in their power to undermine un-dermine the influence of tho Peking government Tho work of the agitators has been more effective in Mongolia than elsewhere, as they have been about able to harrass the trans-Siberian line by encouraging the Mon gollans to move north into Siberia and Manchuria and to attack railway towns. Russia's military forces are somewhat limited now in eastern Siberia, Si-beria, and consequently the trans-Siberian lino is seriously Ihreatened by the Mongolian uprisings. German agents also have been able to assist many German and Austrian war prisoners to escape from Siberia into Mongolia and thence into other parts of China. Banks Promote Propaganda Much of the German propaganda has been traced directly to the German Ger-man banks and prominent German commercial men in Peking and Tien Tsin. Both the British charge d'affaires d'af-faires and the Russian minister have been named the leading German intrigues in-trigues in letters to the foreign office, and suggested their internment. |