Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-01
OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF A
GERMAN PLOT TO WAR ON us.
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IONS for its action.

IONS for its action.
The document supplies the missing
link to many separate chains OF CIR
cumstances which until now have
seemed to lead to no definite point. IL
sheds new light upon the frequently
repeated but indefinite movements Oh
the Mexican government to couple us
situation with the friction between the
United States and Japan.
II adds another chapter to the cele-
b. ated report of Jules Cambon, French
ambassador in Berlin before the war,
OF Germany's worldwide plans for
stirring strife on every continent
wnare this might aid her in the strug-
e for world domination which she
dreamed was close at hand.
il adds a climax to the operations
@. cunt Won Bernstorff and the Ger
man embassy in this country which
have been colored with passport
frauds, charges of dynamite plots and
Intrigue, the full extent of which never
has been published. 1t gives new
cledence to persistent reports OF SUD
i. arine bases on Mexican territory In
the Gulf of Mexico; it takes cognizance
q a fact long recognized by American
army chiefs; that If Japan ever under
took to invade the United States, it
robibly would be through Mexico,
O, er the morder and into the Missls-
s. pi valley to split the country in
two.
1t recalls that Count Won BernstorT
men handed his passports, was very
t,,uctant to return to Germany, but ex-
l, essed preference for asylum in
Cuba.
it gives a new explanation to the re-
Teated arrests on the border of men
[. arged by American authorities with
Icing German intelligence agents, and
{ poses the source of much Mexican
sod known to be boarded in Toxic and
other Japanese banks.
A profound sensation has been Gre
sted by publication today of informa-
ton which shows that Germany, in
Planning unrestricted submarine war
fare and counting on the consequences,
proposed an alliance with Mexico and
.aoan to make war on the United States
If this nation did not remain neutral.
German Foreign Minister thinner
man, at Berlin, sent the note of pro-
posal to German Minister Won EXC
hardt, in Mexico City, via German Am
Eassador Won Bernstorff, lately accred-
tied to the United States.
Secret Service Working.
1t has been an open secret that de-
partment of justice officials In their in
vestigation of plots to violate Ameri-
can neutrality by setting on foot armed
expeditions in Mexico. more than once
lave uncovered what appeared to be
lidliS "a tue 0SI lldu oSSl CT SSl WV
A few days ago Fred Kaiser, sus-
pected of being a German agent, was
arrested at Nogales on charges brought
under the neutrality statutes, depart
ment of justice agents declaring he had
attempted to obtain military informa-
ton on the American side of the bor-
Ger and had cultivated the society OF
Z merican army officers with an appar-
cut intention of promoting those eff
forts.
Last July when W. H. Schweibs, who
claimed to be a former German army
eHcer escaped into Mexico at Nogales
after arrest on similar charges, the
deputy marshal who tried to follow
him was stopped by Mexican authori-
t-as.
a copy of Zimmermann's instrue'
tons to Won Eckhardt, sent through
ca Bernstorf. is in possession of the
I lifted States government. 1t is as
follows:
One ii The Letters.
Berlin, Jan. 19, 1917.
"On the LIST of February We intend
to begin submarine warfare unrs-