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Show hUN SPYS CONVICTED. Long Prison Term for Band Who Tried to Foment Revolt in India. San Francisco. One lurid chapter in the history of Germany's intrigue to win niasiery of the world was closed April ;0. when United States District Judge William C. Van Fleet sentenced twenty-nine Germans, Americans and Hindus convicted of having conspired to overthrow British rule in India. The trial of the principals in the world-wide conspiracy was a series of sensations exposes of criminal German Ger-man diplomacy and the shooting to death of two Hindu defendants in the courtroom a week ago. The total of the prison terms imposed im-posed by Judge Van Fleet was twenty-three twenty-three and two-thirds years and the fines SW.OOO. |