Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
PROPOSED THEY I0IN IN MAKING
 WAR 0N AMERICA
Continued from page one.)

fH0ntlnueQ 1IOlIl page OucsJ -.st of all it seems to show con- Lao, .:on with Carranza's recent
 nsou nsouosal to neutral governments, that pOprts plopt of food and munitions to the expua Isnte movers be cut off and the
 e.:n,otion entin that he might stop the
 ll., anlv of oil, so vital to the British
 vsyy nsvy and which is exported from Tampico.
 ~ What Will Congress Do!
 what congress will do, and how
 -,oohers of congress who have
 nlen, annonlv sympathized with Germany in .hoir yp opposition to clothing the presi-
 inglI aort with full authority to protect umorican u,n rights, will regard the re- Citations of German machinations to ,ttack the United States, is the sub- ;act tonight of the keenest interest. such a proposition as Germany in- structed her minister to make to Mexico borders oh an act of war, if actually it is not one. No doubt ex- ;sts here now that persistent reports during the last two years, of opera t;on of German agents. not alone in Mexico, but all through Central America and the West Indies, arc based on fact.
 There is now no doubt whatever that the proposed alliance with Mexi. 60 was known 10 high Mexican of ficials who are distinguished for their anti-Americanism. Among them are Rafael Zubaran, Carranza minister to Germany, and Luis Cabrera, Car. ranza minister of finance. It is ap. parent that the proposition had taken definite form when Zuheran returned to Mexico City from Berlin recent ly. His return from his foreign post was covered by the fact that Car ranza had called many of his diplo- mats flor conferences"
 Cabrera Tinted at Proposal.
 Some time before that Cabrera, while at Atlantic City, in the confer. ences of the American Mexican joint commission, had suggested in guarded way. to members of the American section of the commission, that he regretted that the commission had succeeded fully in settling tha difficulties between Mexico and the United States, for he said he had hoped it might continue it's work and make peace for the world. When pressed for some details of how tho commission could restore world peace Cabrera said the two republics con- trolled the destiny of the war by their control of it's supplies. Mexico. he intimated, might do her part by cut ting off export of oil. The American commissioners dismiss ed his ideas as visionary
 Almost coincidentall3 with Zuber. aims return from Germany, Cabrera returned to Mexico City. open in his expression of anti-Americanism zuberan, before being sent abroad, mad represented Carranza here, while the Niagara mediation conferences were in progress,and was no less aVowedly anti-American than was Cabrera.
 More Evidence of Scheme.
 Meanwhile, Baron von Schoen, sec- retary Of the German embassy, was transferred to Mexico Coity. No ex- planatlon could be obtained for th,e reason for his transfer, and such in vesugatlon as was possible failed to aeVelop why the secretary from the Unlted States should be sent to the German legation in Mexico. Baron Von Schoens association with the movements does not appear. The only outward indication that he might nave been connected with them is iound in the fact that he recently aad been detached from the German embassy in Tokyo, and was well acqualnted with the Japanese minis ter Tn Mexico City.
 Oarranza's peace proposal was openly pronounced as evidence of Ger ,llan Influence by Mexican officials neie, Who declared it was intended UMiy w. 10 embarrass the United States. lnen apparently some influences snowed their effect on the course of 'ne Mexlcan government and on Feb !iualy 70 Cabrera, minister of finance, .Ssued statement describing "the sllazement" of the Mexican govern iaent sh that the American newspapers snouid nave interpreted General Car. ,anzas ,sa. proposal to cut off exports of ,n mal,itlons as suggest that Mexico na n'sht cut off shipments of British oil esa"c;@ fcc,ared this entirely o'ounaless" and that feature of the