It developed later that the arms were purchased--sixteen carloads of them--by Henry Muck, Tauscher's manager, for $300,000, made payable by von Papen through G. Amsinck & Co. to Tauscher. A part of the shipment was sent to San Diego; the balance was to have gone to India via Java and China, but never left on account of the protests of the British Consul. Instead, a number of machine guns and 1,500,000 rounds of ammunition were sold to a San Francisco broker who was acting as agent for Adolphi Stahl, financial agent in the United States for the Republic of Guatemala. When Zimmermann cabled to von Bernstorff on April 30, 1916 (through Count von Luxburg in Buenos Aires), "Please wire whether von Igel's report on March 27, Journal A, No. 257, has been seized, and warn Chakravarty," he had grave concern over the betrayal of German influences in the Hindu conspiracies. This was fully justified when a correspondence notebook of von Igel's disclosed, among other entries, the following transactions:
August 12, 1915--Captain Herman Othmer inclosed documents about the _Annie Larsen_ and von Igel forwarded charter to Consul at San Francisco.
September 2--The embassy forwarded papers from San Francisco about the _Annie Larsen_ and von Igel returned them.
September 7--The embassy sent a telegram from San Francisco about the _Maverick_.
September 9--The consulate, San Francisco, sent a letter for information and von Igel replied with a telegram about _Maverick_ repairs.
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.