The enterprises must be recounted out of their actual sequence. The first he claimed to have had little part in--the project of an uprising in India which its sponsors hoped would repeat the Mutiny of 1857--but with a more successful outcome. Captain Hans Tauscher, the New York agent of the Krupp steel and munitions works, was in Berlin when war broke out. He reported for active duty to Captain von Papen, in New York, as soon as he could cross the Atlantic, and one of his earliest services was the purchase of a large quantity of rifles, field guns, swords and cartridges, which he stored in 200 West Houston Street, New York. On January 9, 1915, he shipped a trainload of arms and ammunition to San Diego, California. There it was loaded into a little vessel, the _Annie Larsen_, which had been chartered by German interests, and the _Annie Larsen_ put to sea, ostensibly for Mexico, where revolutionary arms were in demand. Her real destination was a rendezvous off Socorro Island with the _Maverick_, a tank-ship which had been bought in San Francisco with German money. The _Maverick_ was to trans-ship the arms, flood them with oil in her cargo tanks in case she might be searched, and proceed by way of Batavia and Bangkok to Karachi, a seaport in India which is the gateway to the Punjab. There she would be met by friendly fishing vessels who would land her cargo, and if all went well, there would be a massacre of the garrison of Karachi, and hell would break loose over India. The effect of such an uprising upon Great Britain’s sorely tried military condition of early 1915 would have been incalculable. The native troops in France who were helping to stop the breach until England’s great armies could be trained would have to be recalled, the semi-loyal tribes would have seen their opportunity, Germany would hardly have hesitated to throw a Turkish force at the northern passes, and altogether it would not have been pleasant for the integrity of the British Empire. The _Maverick_ and the _Annie Larsen_ missed connections at Socorro. The _Annie Larsen_ wandered about the Pacific for some weeks and eventually put into Hoquiam, Washington, where the United States seized the arms. The _Maverick_ blundered from Socorro to San Diego, to Hilo, Hawaii, to Anjer, Java, by way of Johnson Island, then to Batavia, Java, where she was received with disappointment by a German agent and where she was finally sold. The filibuster ended in flat and costly failure: the arms cost not less than $100,000 and probably $150,000, the freight to the Pacific Coast some $12,000, the charter of the _Annie Larsen_ $19,000, the purchase of the _Maverick_ involved hundreds of thousands, not to mention the individual fees of the numerous agents employed.