Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-13
WAS THERE 4 SECRET
 TREATY SIGNED BY
 JAPAN AND MEXICO?
Sensational Story of Alleged Photograph of Document
 Shown tc Taft
FREAGHERY IS TINTED Al

NEW YORK CITY, Apri 12-The New York Sun prints the borrowing dispatch:
 ME ICO CITY, April I0.-Facts of the most significant character bear ing upon the reason for the sudden mobilization just a month ago of 20,000 American troops at three points within striking distance of the Mexican border have become known here. They deal with secret rela- lions which existed prior to March l between Japan and the Diaz gov ernment. the discovery of which led to immediate action by the Presi- dent Of the United States.
 The circumstances that a man wno was in possession of only half of the facts concerning the hidden ac- tiyity of Japan's diplomatic agents allowed his share of the secret to become public at Fl Paso last We'd nesday. has hurried the full revela- .tion of the story of an undoubted arrangement between the Mexican lgovernment and the representatives of the government of Japan looking toward the securing by the latter of adequate coaling stations on the Pacific coast of the republic
 The truth of these negotiations, and of thee effect that their discov- lery had upon President Taft and his cabinet at Washington, is dis lclosed from a source which Is trust worthy Respect for the sources of the information has not interfered with the verification has the news coming from that source by more than one authority.
 Wilson on the Alert
 Henry M. Wilson. the ambassador of the United States to Mexico, had occasion many months ago to real ize the strong antipathy of the Mexi- leans Of all classes toward the United States. Later during the celebration in honor of the foundation of the republic, when many Japanese Of high rank came as special ambasSa- dors fro mtheir country to the Mex ican capital, the ambassador had reason to know that marks of pc culiar respect was being paid to the Japanese, and that there had been a private audience between Diaz and
 a few of his more influential minis
 ters and the Japanese deelgates. Mir.
 Wilson made a quiet investigation into the apparent drift of interna- tional sentiment between Japan and Mexico. He learned through certain steamship and railroad officials that : for the last eighteen months every l ship of the Nippon Yusen Kiasha coming into Seattle and of the Toyo
 Risen Kaisa, whose port is at San
 Francisco, was carrying from twenty to 150 Japanese, passage paid, be sides cargoes of agricultural ma ], cnine-y, household goods and general 1 stores. At Seattle and San Francis i co these Japanese, all men, were i, transshipped to steamers of the Pa z cific mail line plying between Seattle iSan Francisco and Mexican ports.
 Gets Secret Treaty.
 During the month of February Am I bassador Wilson obtained for few 3 hours the original of a secret treaty f between Japan and Mexico. He kept Il 1t long enough to have a photograph 7, made of it, and then it was returned
 The document was in the shape of
 several clauses which were to be Q part of a formal agreement on the
 part of the Mexican government to allow the Japanese commercial line iof steamships to have it's own coal [ ing stations at a point on the Pa cific coast and to grant certain other
 colonization rights in the states . along the western coast
 The secret clauses of the treaty | those photographed by Ambassador y Wilson, gove Japan a lease on a + coaling station and maneuvering priv - ileges in Magdalena bay, with the al Y formative of coaling station at one other of the few ports down the Mexican coast.
 The clauses also set forth Japan '' and Mexico's mutual interests in the + Pacific, and, while not stipulatine t an offensive and defensive alliance [ gave fin a diplomatic way Japan. s keen interest in the protection o f Mexico against aggression. The d treaty had been ratified not by tn. Mexican senate but by Diaz and hil cabinet.
 Takes Photo to Taft. n The day after he obtained the pho Is tograph of his treaty. Mir. Wilsol e took the train for Washington. l. When he arrived in Washington -e the cabinet was in session. He wa
 immediately admitted and place.
 his evidence of the secret negotia tions between Mexico and Japan be T. fore the president and the member e. of the cabinet. The sending of tn d troops to the border and the battls
 ships to Mexican waters followed.