Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-08
GERMANY ADMITS
PLOT AGAINST us.
ZIMMERMAN, AS AUTHOR OF
INTRIGUE ORDER, SHUNS
PRETENSE.
NO SURPRISE AT WASHINGTON
American Officials Are Sure of Au
thenticity-Some Senators Doubt
Explains Proposed Alliance
With Mexico and Japan.

Washington.-German Foreign Min
lister Zimmermann's frank admission
that Germany did seek to ally Japan
and Mexico with her to war against
the United States caused no surprise
to American officials, although it may
be said they did not expect so full
and free an acknowledgment of the
exposure.
Some officials had thought there
might be an attempt to discredit the
authenticity of the revelations by Of
fering an explanation of a different
character. American officials never
have had the least doubts of the au-
thenticity of the evidence in their
hands.
Does Not Change Situation.
Minister Zimmermann's defense of
Germanys intrigue on the ground
that it was only intended to be car
ried out in the event the United
States did not remain neutral is ta-
ken not to change the situation in
the slightest degree.
Whether it was presented to Gen
believed not to have been communi-
Gated to Japan, do not, in the opin-
ion of American effici5ls. alter the
established fact that Germany, while
seeking the offices of the United
States to make peace, and while pro-
testing her innocence in any intention
to violate American lives, was at the
same moment preparing unrestricted
submarine warfare, and was intrigu-
ing to attack the United States with
two allies.
Mr.. Zimmerman's reference to an
alleged plot by the United States
to unite pan-America against Ger
many is regarded with mingled feel
ings of incomprehension and amuse-
ment. The pan-American union, the
Argentina embassy and the state de-
partment can find record of no such
newspaper publication as Zimmer-
mann contends revealed the "plot" in
Buenos Aires.
The only event which officials can
recall which is susceptible of being
disturbed into such a charge as Zim-
mermann makes was discussion early
in Secretary Bryan's term of office of
plan to surround the pan-Americas
with neutral zone in which there
were to be no naval operations. Moth
ing ever came of it.
Zimmermann' statement was read
in the senate Saturday and some SEN
ators who were at first inclined to
think his published instructions to
Won Eckhardt, German minister to
Mexico, was forgery, had the state
ment read twice.
Germany Fooled.
Germanys attempt to involve Mex
leo and Japan with the United States
in the event of hostilities between
the United States and Germany has
attracted wide attention. The press
regards it as futile move.
Comments of Swiss.
Berne.-Although most of the Ger
man language newspapers in Switzer-
land thus far print without comment
the Zimmerman note, as made public
through the revelations at Washing
ton of the German plot to involve
Mexico and Japan against the United
States, the Nachrichten (BaseD up
braids Germany for having talked
high morality and acted in an exactly
opposite way"
Something terribly fatal has hap
pened to the German foreign office,
says the paper, which then lectures
Germany on "the folly of getting
caught"
Berlin Admits the Charge.
Foreign Secretary Zimmermann's in
to the German minister to
Mexico, as published in the United