September 9, 1915—The Embassy sent a letter from the consulate at San Francisco about shipment and von Igel replied to embassy that the proposals were impracticable.
October 1—The embassy sent a cipher message to Berlin about the Maverick.
October 9—The Consulate, San Francisco, sent a letter about the Maverick negotiations.
October 20, 1915—Von Igel received a report about a shipment of arms from Manila.
January 27, 1916—The embassy forwarded copies of telegrams to San Francisco in the matter of the Maverick.
August 28—The Consulate, Manila, sent a cipher letter about the transport of arms.
November 8, 1915—AAA 100 sent a report from or concerning Ispahan arms.
The peaceful Har Dyal, Oxford graduate, lecturer at Leland Stanford, denizen of the University of California, and editor of Gadhr, had laid down the following rules for the guidance of members of the group of revolutionaries which he headed: each candidate for membership must undergo a six months' probationary period before his admission; any member who exposed the secrets of the organization should suffer death; members wishing to marry could do so without any ceremony, as they were above the law. Under such amiable rules of conduct he accumulated a number of followers of the faith, and more swarmed to the tinkle of German money. In August, 1914, the "first expeditionary force" of revolutionists set sail for India in the Korea. A few months later, Har Dyal left for Berlin, where he organized the Indian Revolutionary Society, leaving Ram Chandra as his successor to edit Gadhr in Berkeley.
The avowed object of this society was to establish a Republican government in India with the help of Germany. They held regular meetings attended by German officials and civilians who knew India, among them former teachers in India. At these meetings the Germans were advised as to the line of conduct to be adopted. The deliberations were of a secret nature. Har Dyal and Chattopadhay had considerable influence with the German Government and were the only two Indians privileged to take part in the deliberations of the German Foreign Office.
Besides these societies there were in Berlin two other associations known as the Persian and Turkish societies. The object of the first named was to free Persia from European influences in general, and create ill feeling against the British in particular, and to assist the natives to form a republic. The object of the Turkish society was practically the same. They established an Oriental translating bureau which translated German news and other literature selected by the Indian Revolutionary Society into various Oriental languages and distributed the translations among the Hindu prisoners of war.