Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-01
Sought American War to Weaken Englanl

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Canada. would not remain in the Brit
lsh empire if that empire fought
America for Japan. So whatever its
outcome we shall be the gamer diplo-
matically by such a war, as we'll as by
weakening the military power of some
OF the countries we shall eventually
have to crush to attain our world
aims"
With these considerations in mind
German propaganda worked insidi
ously in Japan and California to stir
up bad blood over the immigration
question, to inculcate in the Japanese
the idea that America planned to eX-
plot China and eventually seize the
control of the Pacific, to make Ameri-
cans think Japan was about to grab
the Philippines and Hawaii and at
tack the coast of California. These
intrigues failed. but they were recon-
menced after the outbreak of war in
1911. and are going on today This
fact is known in Washington, as well
as in London, and one result of open
war between Germany and America, if
it comes, will probably be the publica-
tion of a mass of evidence showing the
tcutonic origin of much of the jar an
ese- American war scare.
Japan in Mexico.
1t is not necessary to point out that
during recent years much OF this in
trigue has centered upon the hope of
involving Japan I'm the Mexican prob
lem. The scares in America about Jap
anese naval bases in Lower California
and possible territorial concessions to
Japan on the Mexican coast were
founded upon the activity of German
secret agents in Mexico, who repeat
edly bribcd Mexican generals and poll
ticians to make tempting representa-
tions to Toxic. These schemes all
came to nothing, like most German
, plots outside the Balkans, because the
| japanese saw clearly the pit Germany
had digged for them and declining
with oriental politeness to fall into it.
Germany's African plot would de
serve a book to itself if all the facts
We're available. 1t has been known
here for two years that in the autumn
of 1914 Germany had planned a dash
of the interned liners in New York
harbor, loaded with ammunitions and
| German reservists, to German South
west Africa, guarded by Admiral Won
| Specs fleet.
The plot in its broader outlines was
this. Germany believed when war
broke out that successtI III repellloh
couid be strreu up III bIltlsh ooutil
AFRICA, especially IL German troops
from the horth were 10 invade biltlsil ,
tellllory' Accot tulhsly iiuepeIlueiiC ',
Was suaranteeu tie rcpel leaueIs >, any
Southwest Africa, modified his little
force of $500 white men for war.
These plans broke down, the Boer re-
peIlioh proving pioi'Pt lilSCo' anu anu
tneh Won spec, on NoNeiilper Der i, ,.. "oi
ms victory over Auilirai Cr1uuooN
squadron OH the coast Oh ohile'
About this tire some German mas
ter mind" conceived the idea of utiliz-
ing some Of the thousands of German
reservists who were cooling their heels
in New York and Hoboken by putting
them on the 81 interned liners and
sending them to Luderitz bay, the
German harbor in Southwest Africa,
whence there is a railway to the in
terror and to the frontier of the Brit
ish Cape province. The liners were
| to be hastily laden and rushed forth
and it seems certain that a rendezvous
with Won Specs fleet somewhere il
the South Atlantic about the middle
of December was arranged. The pc
cularly German character of this plot
| is evidenced in the pains taken tC
make these proceedings legal"
Clearance papers would be obtained
for number of unarmed German
merchantmen, carrying German sub
| jects on their way to a German port
and under American law it is hard to
see how these papers could be refused
Proof of subsequent warlike inten
tions would be lacking, altho it was
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