The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918

Name: The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918
Author: Jones, John Price

Jones, John Price

World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- Germany

"January 4, 1917--very secret. The Japanese, Hideo Nakao, is
     traveling to America with important instructions from the Indian
     Committee. He is to deal exclusively with Chakravarty. Please,
     after consultation with Chakravarty, inform Imperial Minister
     at Peking and the Imperial Consulate at Shanghai that they are
     to send in Nakao's reports regularly. I advise giving Nakao in
     installments up to fifty thousand dollars in all for the execution
     of his plans in America and Eastern Asia. Decision as to the
     utility of the separate payments is left to your excellency and
     the Imperial Legation at Peking. Despatch follows.

     "(Signed) ZIMMERMANN."


On March 7, 1917, Guy Scull, deputy police commissioner in New York,
with eight detectives, called at 364 West 120th Street, found Dr.
Chakravarty clad in a loin cloth, and arrested him on a charge of
setting afoot a military enterprise against the Emperor of India.
With Sekunna, a German who had been writing tracts for him, he was
later transferred to San Francisco to stand trial. The typewriter in
the 120th Street house, whose characteristics--all typewriters are
as individual and as identifiable as finger-prints--had betrayed
the conspirators, lay idle for many months, but as late as March
18, 1918, a Hindu, Sailandra Nath Ghose, who had collaborated with
Taraknath Das in writing a propaganda work called "The Isolation
of Japan in world politics," was arrested there in company with a
German woman, Agnes Smedley. The two were accused of violating the
espionage act by representing themselves to be diplomatic agents of
the Indian Nationalist Party, and of having sent an appeal for aid in
the establishment of a democratic federated republic in India to the
Brazilian Embassy in Washington, to Leon Trotzky in Russia, and to the
Governments of Panama, Paraguay, Chile and other neutral nations.

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The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918

Jones, John Price

World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- Germany

"January 4, 1917--very secret. The Japanese, Hideo Nakao, is
     traveling to America with important instructions from the Indian
     Committee. He is to deal exclusively with Chakravarty. Please,
     after consultation with Chakravarty, inform Imperial Minister
     at Peking and the Imperial Consulate at Shanghai that they are
     to send in Nakao's reports regularly. I advise giving Nakao in
     installments up to fifty thousand dollars in all for the execution
     of his plans in America and Eastern Asia. Decision as to the
     utility of the separate payments is left to your excellency and
     the Imperial Legation at Peking. Despatch follows.

     "(Signed) ZIMMERMANN."


On March 7, 1917, Guy Scull, deputy police commissioner in New York,
with eight detectives, called at 364 West 120th Street, found Dr.
Chakravarty clad in a loin cloth, and arrested him on a charge of
setting afoot a military enterprise against the Emperor of India.
With Sekunna, a German who had been writing tracts for him, he was
later transferred to San Francisco to stand trial. The typewriter in
the 120th Street house, whose characteristics--all typewriters are
as individual and as identifiable as finger-prints--had betrayed
the conspirators, lay idle for many months, but as late as March
18, 1918, a Hindu, Sailandra Nath Ghose, who had collaborated with
Taraknath Das in writing a propaganda work called "The Isolation
of Japan in world politics," was arrested there in company with a
German woman, Agnes Smedley. The two were accused of violating the
espionage act by representing themselves to be diplomatic agents of
the Indian Nationalist Party, and of having sent an appeal for aid in
the establishment of a democratic federated republic in India to the
Brazilian Embassy in Washington, to Leon Trotzky in Russia, and to the
Governments of Panama, Paraguay, Chile and other neutral nations.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918

The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918

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