The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-23

help to build be used against the United States in the event of a war between the United States and Mex ico? Another is: Might not such an alliance drag the United States into an
 unwelcome war with some foreign power as a result of some future &C., ton on Mexico's part: Inlnking that these questions would be asked in America should an alliance be con- sidered, I asked the Mexican officials about these things when the subject was preached in Mexico City.
 ." In the first place." they said, such an alliance would minimize, would almost end, the possibility of war be- tween the United ntates and Mexico. Secondly, stipulations might be made that Mexico should not fortify the bor- der between the United States and Mexico-this would merely be proof of the good faith of Mexico in enter ing the agreement. The logical points of ingress into Mexico for American
 armies are border points. The port Qualifications would be in no way make Mexican impregnable to America That was the answer given to the first question. The reply to the sec- ond was:
 "'As for the possibility of America being dragged into a foreign war on account of Mexico-that is a more serious question. It is so serious that it would justify precautionary stipula- tions in the agreement, on the part of the American government. The Mex ican government would understand the necessity for such precautionary stipulations and would assent to them-that is the attitude of the pres- ent Mexican government. There is another aspect of this phase of the situation, however, based on condi- tions already existant, and conditions in the making of which Mexico had no part. Your Monroe Doctrine creates this other aspect. Without any alliance of the sort suggested at present, your Monroe Doctrine caused you to bring pressure to bear on the French which enabled us to end the iron regime of Maximillian.
 As to Dangers of War.
 Tn short. there is already as great danger of the United States being dragged into war with another coun- try through Mexico as there would be after such an alliance became effect ive-though, needless to say, it is our hope that it will never be necessary tp fight such a war, for the burden of 1t would fall as much on the Mexican republic as on the United States. It would be only fair for Mexico to grant stipulations that would minimize this danger"
 Another question was asked of the correspondent who was being inter- viewed instead of doing the interview ing. American military strategists often have pointed to the military inn portance to the United States of Lower California, because a whole army fleet and any number of army transports could easily find shelter in the Gulf of California, between this "trip of land and the Mexican mainland. The cor respondent said that this question had not been brought up in Mexico City and that he could only venture con- lecture on it. He did not think that the Mexican government would cede Lower California under any condi- tions, or sell it to the United States, partly because the rank and file of the Mexican people could not be brought to agree to any such step.. But he thought it not improbable that in such an alliance as suggested Mexico might consent to turn over the Notifications of Lower California entirely to the United States, provided Lower Cali fornia remained still part of Mex leo and it's civil government remained entirely in Mexican hands. The much discussed Mexican pride" would have the granting of further powers in Lower California impossible. in that further powers there would infringe on Mexican sovereignty, he said.
 The principal ports in Mexico that would have to be fortified, the cor respondent said, would be Vera Cruz, the terminus of the railroad to Mexico City; Puerto Mexico, terminus of the Railroad which crosses Mexico to the sPacif1c Coast; Salina Cruz, the Pacific terminus of the Ts- huantepec Railroad; Tampico, ter minus of the railroad leading directly to American. border points, and Ma zatlan. terminus of the line into So- nora, the Mexican state just south of the Arizona border.
 There were about 25.000 Japanese | who had colonized in Mexico up to the l present IlIno, the correspondent SdlO, and in the Mexican army there were l Japanese officers, including on major, | four captains and minor officers in | larger numbers. These officers, how | ever, he said, were not in close touch | with the higher Mexican officials, and | associated principally with the lower | classes. The colonists were not ab- | sorbed into the nation in Mexico any more than they were in this country, | and were feared as a nation within a nation, while there were not a few Mexicans who suspected | that the growing number of Japanese colonists might some day prove the most serious sort of a. menace to Mexi- ca an sovereignty.
 The yellow peril" he said, was as much of nightmare to the Mexican IS to any other people on earth, but coupled with the fear was the ne- cessity just at the present time of avoiding carefully any indication of iistrust.
 DIR. JOSEPH ANDERSON BURIED.
 Waterbury, Aug. 23-The funeral of |