New Britain herald., 1917-03-01
Series of.Attempts to Stir Up Trouble in We!! ern Hemisphere Laid Positively at Door
 Imperial Palace in P0tsdam By Unie States Secret Service Agents

Washington, March. 1.-Revela- tionA of how Germany, expect ing war with the United tSates as the result of her submarine. campaign of ruthlessness, plotted to unite Mexico and Japan with her for an attack on the United States has stirred the capi- tai to its depths.
 Members of congress, many of whom have been hesitating before President Wilson's request for full au- thority to declare armed neutrality against Germany in the present situa- tion, went to the capitol today read ing documentary evidence of the in- trigue which proposed to separate Japan from her allies and add the United States to the list of nations which Germany hopes to see con quered in her dream of world domina- ton.
 How Germany. confident that unre- structed submarine warfare is the in- strument by which she will bring
 
 triple blow, is revealed in . set of inr structions from German Foreign Ministef zimmerman to German Minister Won Eckharlt, in Mexico l City, which was transmitted through Count Won Bernstorff. late German l ambassador here. i At one sweep Germany proposed to ] weaken the entente alliance by the defection of Japan, strike a crushing blow at England's naval power by cut ting off the vital supply of Mexican fuel oil and thoroughly engage the at tention of the United States by an in- vasion in which Japan was to be- in- yited to join and for which Mexico should be rewarded by reconquering her Host provinces" Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
 Hypocrisy of German Government.
 This astounding document, dated Berlin, January 19, 1917, contents of which have for some time been in possession of the United States gov- ernment, shows plainly that Germany while making repeated protests to the United States that she had no inten- tions of resuming her sea campaign of ruthlessness, was making the final arr rangements for is execution two weeks before it was announced, and had even gone so far in consideration of the consequences that she proposed to meet them by the attack with Mexico and Japan upon the United States.
 To American officials the startling disclosure throws new light on Ger many's real attitude toward the United States. It shows that while the ad- ministration has been going to utmost lengths to avoid an armed clash with Germany, even to the extent of re- peatedly enduring fragrant violations of American rights on the sea and breach of neutrality on American soil, Germany, with the diplomacy sudden ly revealed by the outbreak of tho European war, has been numbering the United States among her enemies and has made provision tc meet such a situation. Proof Lonx in Hands of United States.
 The documentary proof of Ger many's plot to unite Japan and Mexico against the United States has been in the hands of the United States. While German statesmen have been pleading that President Wilson's action in breaking off diplomatic re- la.tfons was ''brusque" and harsh. and that they were informed of no ''au- thentic reasons for his action and while the German chancellor, Dr. Won Bethmann-H Hollweg, was making his speech in the Reichstag in which he deplored the break and protested that Germany had promoted and cherished the friendship of the United States, ."as Bismark putt it-'an heir loom of Frederic the Great "-the documentary evidence in the hands of officials here showed that Germany was plotting an attack on the United States by a triple alliance.
 American officials wonder how, In the light of these disclosures, German officials will reconcile their plea that the United states put an interpreta- tion on the new submarine orders mot intended by Germany" with the organized disabling of German mer- chant ships in American ports. at 0 pre-arranged signal from the German embassy some of them even before the break was an accomplished fact. American officials are equally inter- csted, in knowing what reception the