The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-04-11
SECRET TREATY
SHOWN TO TAFT
Cause Of Hasty Movement
Of Troops to Border.
.ULTIMATUM TO MEXICO

Sister Republic Given Six Days to
Abrogate Agreement With Japan in
Which the Latter Country Was Civ
en- coalins Station and Other Con-
cessIons-Diaz Government MeekIy
Complies With Demands.
New York, April 1.-THE Sun prints
the following from the City of Mexico:
: Facts of the most significant char
acter bearing upon the reason for the
sudden mobilization month ago OF
10000 American troops at three points
within striking distance of the Mex
lean border have become known here.
Henry L.. Wilson, United States
ambassador to Mexico, many months
ago realized the strong antipathy OF
MeXicans of all classes toward the
United States and he began a quiet
investigation. -.-a s s
Ite learned through certain steam
ship and railroad officials that for the
last eighteen months every ship Of the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha coming into
Seattle, and of the Togo Kisen Kaisha,
into San Francisco, was carrying from
20 to $50 Japanese, passage paid, all
of whom were bound for Mexico,
where they had been granted tracts
for cotton and corn raising.
During February the ambassador
obtained the original of secret treaty
between Japan and Mexico. He kept
1t long enough to have a photograph
made of it and then it was returned to
It's place in the archives of the Mex
lean state department. a.-.-.
Japan Secured coaIing Station.
Fhe clauses of the secret treaty
gave Japan lease of coaling station
and maneuver grounds in Magdalena
bay with the alternative of coaling
station at one other of the few scat
tered ports down the main coast 1t
also gave Japanese commercial line
OF steamships permission to have it's
own coaling station at point on tn
Pacific coast and granted certain other
colonization rights in the state along
the western coast. The treaty, while
not STIMULATING an offensive and defen-
s1ve alliance, gave in diplomatic way
Japan's keen interest in the protection
OF Mexico against aggression.
"The treaty had been ratified, not by
the Mexican senate, but by Diaz and
his cabinet.
"The day after he had obtained the
photograph Mr.. Wilson took the train
for Washington. He wired to the state
department Of his coming and of the
urgency of his mission. When he ar
rived in Washington the cabinet was
already in session with the president.
The ambassador laid before the presi-
dent and his advisers the evidence he
had brought with him.
Rapid Action Is Taken.
"That was in the morning. At noon
Chief of Staff Wood received an i'm.
perative summons to the White House
and he interrupted his lunch to obey.
He was closeted with the president
and cabinet for several hours.
THAT night the building of the war
department was ablaze with lights and
orders were going out for the mobiliza
ton which has excited so much specu.
lat1on ever since.
Then Mr.. Wilson hurried to New
York to see Senior Limantour, who had
just returned from Europe. The Mexi-
can finance minister was informed that
Mexico had just six days in which to
abrogate the secret treaty and that if
this was not done the United States
government would take whatever &C.
ton it should see fit to defend itself
against the unwarranted action of
beth Mexico and Japan. .. ~
within week of Limantour's re.
turn to Mexico the order went from
Washington recalling all American
warships from Mexican waters. This
was the only outward sign that Mexico
had complied with the demands of the
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