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
Robert Capelle, agent in San Francisco of the North German Lloyd line,
fifteen months' imprisonment and a fine of $7,500; Harry J. Hart, a
San Francisco shipping man, six months in jail and a fine of $5,000;
Joseph Bley of the firm of C. D. Bunker & Co., customs brokers, fifteen
months in prison and a fine of $5,000; Moritz Stack von Goltzheim, a
real estate and insurance broker, six months in jail and $1,000 fine;
Louis T. Hengstler, an admiralty lawyer and professor in the University
of California and in Hastings Law College, a fine of $5,000; Bernard
Manning, a real estate, insurance and employment agent in San Diego,
nine months in jail and a fine of $1,000; and J. Clyde Hizar, a former
city attorney in Coronado and assistant paymaster in the United States
Navy, one year's imprisonment and a fine of $5,000. These gentlemen
constituted the so-called "shipping group" which was intimately
concerned with the affairs of the _Annie Larsen_ and the _Maverick_.
Dr. Chakravarty, who had been delegated by no less a personage than
Zimmermann of Berlin to handle all Indian intrigue in America, received
a crushing sentence of sixty days in jail and a fine of $5,000.
Bhagwan Singh, the "poet of the revolution," was sentenced to eighteen
months in the penitentiary; Taraknath Das, the author and lecturer, to
twenty-two months' imprisonment; Gobind Behari Lal, the University
of California student, to ten months in jail. The smaller fry of the
University of California-_Ghadr_ group were disposed of as follows:
Nandekar to three months in jail, Ghoda Ram to eleven months, Sarkar,
who had been in Japan with Gupta, to four months, Munshi Ram (of the
_Ghadr_ staff) to sixty days, Imam Din to four months, Nerajan Das to
six months, Singh Hindi to nine months, Santokh Singh to twenty-one
months in the penitentiary, Gopalm Singh to one year and a day, and
Nidhan Singh to four months.
[Illustration: _Copyright, International Film Service_
Dr. Chakravarty (on the right), the accredited agent of Germany in the
Hindu-German intrigues in America. With him is Ernest Sekunna, also a
German agent, arrested with Chakravarty]
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