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The article presents news related to political developments all round the world. Washington is reticent concerning the investigation by Federal authorities into Teutonic conspiracies conducted in this country, but the mass of evidence continues to pile up in such proportions that it is impossible even to summarize it. Federal laws are apparently inadequate to deal with the conspiracies, and it is understood that the cooperation of the States has been invited by the Federal authorities. On Monday the trial began of Dr. Karl Buenz, director of the Hamburg-American Line and formerly German Consul-General In New York, and others on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by procuring false manifests and clearance papers under which, early in the war, steamers left New York, ostensibly bound for neutral ports, but really to carry supplies to German ships of war.