The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-03-01
German Plot
Involves u. s.
Proposed Alliance With Mexico and
Japan, Should We Break
With Germany
PRESIDENT in POSSESSION OF DOCU-
MENT SINCE DIPLOMATIC BREAK
Would Aid Mexico In Re-COnquer-
ing Provinces, Now Part
of u. S. Soil

WdSHiDbtOH, FcD. So.-lHc H5oOCl-
ated Press is enabled to reveal that
Germany, in planning unrestricted
warfare and counting its consequences
proposed an alliance with Mexico and
Japan to make war on the United
States, IL this country should not re-
main neutral.
Japan, through Mexican mediation,
was TO be urged to abandon her allies
and join in the attack on the United
States.
Mexico, for her reward, was to re-
ceive general financial support from
Germany, re-conquer Texas, New
Mexico and Arizona-lost provinces
and share in the victorious peace
terms Germany contemplated.
Details were left to German Minis
ter Won Eckhardt in Mexico City, who
by instructions signed by German
Foreign Minister Zimmermann, at
Berlin, January 10, 1917, was directed
to propose the alliance with Mexico
to General Carranza and suggest that
Mexico seek to bring Japan into the
plot.
These instructions were transmit
ed to Won Eckhardt through Count
o Bernstorff, former German am
bassador here, now on his way home
to Germany under a safe conduct OBJ
tanned from his enemies by the coun-
try against which he was plotting
war.
Germany pictured to Mexico, by
broad intimation, England and the
entente allies defeated: Germany and
her allies triumphant and in world
domination by the instrument of un-
restricted warfare.
knowledge Kept Secret
The document has beer In the
hands of the government since Presi-
dent Wilson broke off diplomatic rela-
tions with Germany. 1t has been kept
secret, while the president has been
asking congress for full authority to
deal with Germany and while cong
ress has been h~esitating. 1t was In
the presidents hands while Chancel-
lor Won Dethmann-Hollweg was de-
claring that the United States had
placed an Interpretation on the sub
marine declaration never intended
by Germany" and that Germany had
promoted and honored friendly re-
lations with the United States 'as an
heirloom from Frederick the Great"
or itself, IL there were no other, 1t
is considered a sufficient answer to
the German chancellor's plant that
the United States "~brusquely" broke
on relations without giving "authen-
tic" reasons for It's 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.
X sheds Isw light upon the frequent
ly reported but indefinable move
ments of the Mexican government to
couple it's situation with the friction
between the United States and Japan.
1t adds another chapter to the cele-
brated reports of Jules Cambon.
French ambassador in Berlin before
the war, OF Germany's worldwide plan
for stirring strife on. every continent
where they might aid her in the strug-
gle for world domination which she
dreamed was close at hand. 1t adds
a climax to the operations of Count
Won Bernstorff and the German m
bassy in this country. which have
been colored with passport frauds.
charges Of dynamite plots and intri-
que, the full extent OF which never
has been published.
Il gives new credance to persist
emit reports OF submarine bases on
Mexican territory In the Gulf Of Mex
leo; IL takes co~gnixance OF a fact long
recognized by American army chiefs.
that n Japan v Q undertook to In
wade the United States 1t probably
would BE- through Mexico. over the
border and into the Mississippi vail
ley to split the country in two, 1t re-
calls that Count Won Bernstorff when
handed his passports was very re-
lncfant to return TO Germany but ex-
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