The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-07

10 @GlI6ifI hHdk lnCTE Will OC All out
break of war with the United States,
and suggest that the president of Mex
leo, on his own initiative, should COM
municate with Japan, suggesting ad-
herence at once to this plan; at the
same time offer to mediate between
Germany and Japan.
Please call to the attention of the
president of Mexico that the employ
ment of ruthless submarine warfare
now promises to compell England to
make peace in few months.
(Signed) ZIMMERMANN.
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1t recalls that Count Won BernstorfF
| when handed his passports was very
reluctant to return to Germany, but
! expressed a preference for asylum in
Cuba.
| 1t gives q new explanation to the
repeated arrests on the border of men
charged by American military authori-
| ties with being German intelligence
| agents.
IS Last Of all, 1t seems to show a con-
| nectiOn with General Carranza's re-
| cent proposal to neutrals that exports
| of food and munitions to the entente
allies be cut off, and an intimation
| that he might stop the supply of oil,
so vital to the British navy, which is
exported from the Tampico fields.
What Will Congress Do?
will n
members of congress who openly have
| sympathized with Germany in their
| opposition to clothing the president
with full authority to protect Ameri-
| can rights will regard the revelation
of Germany's Vaccinations to attack
the United States is the subject of the
| keenest interest.
Such a proposal as Germany In
| structed her minister to make to Mexi-
CO borders on an act of war, if, actu-
ally, it is not one.
No doubt exists here now that the
persistent reports during the last two
years of the operations of German
agents not alone in Mexico but all
through Central America and the West
Indies are based on fact.
There is now no doubt whatever
that the proposed alliance with Mex
leo was known to high Mexican Off
Gals who are distinguished for their
anti-Americanism. Among them are
Rafael Zubaran, Carranzas minister
to Germany, and Luis Cabrera, Car
ranza'S minister of finance.
The Hand of Mexico.
1t is apparent that the proposal had
taken definite form when Zubaran re-
turned to Mexico City from Berlin re-
Gently. His return from his foreign
post was covered by the fact that Car
rama had called in many of his diplo-
mats for conferences"
Denied at Japanese Embassy.
It was declared by high Japanese
authority on Wednesday night that if
the German proposal of an alliance
ever reached Tokyo it was regarded as
merely a new ebullition of German
"kultur" and that it was thrown in the
wastebasket where 1t belonged.
He asserted no such proposal had
been made to the embassy here and
that if it had been no attention would
have been paid to it.
He said: 1.-THE whole idea was abso-
lutely prepOsterouS."
In order to make an alliance with
Germany, he added, it would be neces-
sary for Japan to break from the allies
and negotiate a separate peace with
the Teutonic powers. But above all
that, he said, the japanese sincerely
desired friendly relations with the
United States.
Did Not Receive Proposal.
Westinghouse was declared by a
high Japanese authority that if the
German proposal of an alliance ever
reached Tokyo it was regarded as
merely a new ebullition of German
'skultur' and that it was thrown in
the wastebasket where it belonged.
He asserted no such proposal had
been made to the embassy here and
that If it had been no attention would
have been paid to it.
He said: "The whole idea was alb
solutely preposterous."
In order to make an alliance with
Germany, he added, it would be neces-
sary for Japan to break from the allies
and negotiate a separate peace with
the Teutonic powers. But above all
that, he said, the japanese sincerely
desired friendly relations with the
United States.