The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918Jones, John Price
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The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918
Jones, John Price
World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- Germany
"In Calcutta unrest (is reported) with street fighting. In Lahore a
bank was robbed; every week at least two Englishmen killed; in the
northwestern district many Englishmen killed; munitions and other
material taken, railroads destroyed; a relief train was repulsed.
"Everywhere great unrest. In Benares a bank has been stormed.
"Revolts in Chitral very serious, barracks and Government buildings
destroyed. The Hurti Mardin Brigade, under Gen. Sir E. Wood, has been
ordered there. Deputy Commissioner of Lahore wounded through a bomb in
the Anakali Bazaar.
"Mohammedan squadron of the cavalry regiment in Nowschera deserted over
Chang, southwest Peshawar. Soldiers threw bombs against the family of
the Maharajah of Mysore. One child and two servants killed, his wife
mortally wounded.
"In Ceylon a state of war has been declared."
In February, 1915, Jodh Singh, a former student of engineering in the
United States, was in Rio de Janeiro. He was directed by a fellow
Hindu to call upon the German Consul, and the latter gave him $300
and instructions to proceed to the German consul in Genoa, Italy,
for orders. Thence he was forwarded to Berlin, where he attended the
meetings of the newly formed Indian Revolutionary Society and absorbed
many ideas for procedure in America. Supplied with more German money he
came to New York and was joined by Heramba Lal Gupta, a Hindu who had
been a student at Columbia, and Albert H. Wehde, an art collector. The
three went to Chicago, and Singh called at once upon Gustav Jacobsen,
the real estate dealer who will be recalled in the Kaltschmidt bomb
plots in Detroit. Jacobsen assembled a group of German sympathizers
which included Baron Kurt von Reiswitz, the consul, George Paul Boehm
(mentioned in instructions to von Papen to attack the Canadian Pacific
Railway) and one Sterneck. At the conference Jodh Singh, Boehm,
Sterneck and Gupta were detailed to go to the far East: Singh to Siam,
to recruit Hindus for revolutionary service; Gupta to China and Japan
to secure arms; Boehm to the Himalayas, to attack the exploring party
of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, the notorious, to impersonate Dr. Cook, and
thus travel about the hills spreading sedition. Wehde, with $20,000
of von Reiswitz's money, Boehm and Sterneck sailed for Manila, and
apparently escaped thence to Java, to meet two officers from the
_Emden_, for the three are at this writing fugitives from justice;
Jodh Singh was arrested in Bangkok and turned over to the British
authorities.
In the diary of Captain Grasshof of the German cruiser _Geier_,
interned in Honolulu, appears the following entry, establishing
Wehde's call in Hawaii, and the complicity of the Consulate there in
his plans:
"At the Consulate I met Mr. A. Wehde from Chicago, who is on way to
Orient on business.
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