New Britain herald., 1917-03-10
.CARRANlA CANCELS
 CARTRIDGE ORDER
Said to Be Seeking Japan's Fayof
  Germans in Mexico I

Germans in Mexico 4
 New York. March 10.-E few week ago, at about the time tho ZmmerS man note proposing a German-AeEs alliance against thE United States was due to be deltvS cred to General Carranza. the Me1N ican government cancelled orders fo&S about 20.000.000 rifle cartrfdgss tha4 had been let in this country. The reason given was that the UnitoA States government by imposing certainty regulations over Mexican ammun1s ton deliveries, had made 1t almoa for the Carranza govern~ ment to procure. when needed, thu munitions necessary to combat thN bandita
 of tho cancellation said yesterdaX@ the orders to Japanese ammunitio4 makers and thereby, in tho opinio1 of the Mexican authorities. create 4T
  in Japan. whether or not the can't collation. was made as sympatheaG move In behalf of Germany thGE Mexican who gave the informa&io1X said he did not know. He did know% he, said. that the order was given un~ solicited to the Japanese manufactur$ erS. M,
 AS to the number of German srn mon in Mexico 1t was said yeotordayfA that there are at least {, 1000 0ermand in various parts of Mexico who ar&S available for service If needed. .' Among them in Robert Fay, an ofn@SS 1cer of the German army and . ouo-SS time plotter in New York, who eoS4 capped from the Atlaklta penitontiaey last August. Fay was serving . son4S tence for plotting tho destruction oA
 nunition ships at seq. One of ,4hG men associated with him in that pl6t,%s also a German army omcer. is also inM Mexico, according to tho federal aurtA thorities. Y
 Aooo Reservists hesve Nov Ycrk. M
 From New York city alone t q
 mated that at 1east 1000 Germany have gone to Msxico ance thS(sdie, missal of Count Won Bsrnst0r and
 
 to be reserves available for 1Srvica ie needed" The Germans ii lladdAdH City are said to have for4aod q mlaA \ itary organization, tho franfe work S4& which was prepared by Capt4in von Papen in the last dayS. of the HIT lI \ regime in June, 1914. a1k1ra lss &1 1y @ In pos6ession of the Bfit3sh S6S yl- s mont . letter written by Rtar Adn4xal Paul von Hintxe Of the 0efman havy. who in 1914 was the German l1ae~ ipter It Mexico City, to Chanted1d Won Bethmann Hollweg in which Ad- miral Won HintSe referred toa tho ac- i. tivities of Von Papon.
 In the course of that letter Admiral von Hintze referred to Won H4ppn in the following language: Ssa
 Captain Von Papen has been herG Gnce March 23. 1s1l., He settled down into the complicated altuationss rapidly and easily. and m short time gained . sure judgment Of his own. and In accordAnce thSre with he acted usefully aad without heGdtation. He showed especial indus try In organixing tho erman colony ' for purposee of sele- 1a&ense, and out of this shy and factiSstS ma4sr3al, uA- willing to undertake Aiir military &C., : tivtty. hs obtained WhSt thsre was to be got Herr Won rApAn leavee ou Juno ID for WAahin6Ho1. | should n guilty of an oniasioh ie I dld not mention, him with commendation tO your Txcellenoy on this occasion.s \ would. howepef. 60 further ana hum 1ly mention to your Ezcellency that T cOnsider that tho servicea Of Cap tain von Papan during hiS appoint mont here warrants Ais recommendN- ton to tho favor 0f his Majesty the emperor and king. ! humbly submit to your Excellancy the request thak E you would be so rood as to lay before E his MAjesty the proposal that he T ahould bestow upon him the fourth class of the order of the Red Eagle. =
 Among the most active of the aer- mxn agents in Mexico is m Amer4can citi1sn doing husiness in Tnrreon. < Another of the head agents of tho { Germans Is German ofacial inta Juarex. A third. who is said to iave instigated one of. the orosco upris- < ings holds German government po- sition in Chihuahua, while still li fourth Of the mead men'' is m tho banking business in the oity. of Rar-ss ral.
 Among the German agente an New York who are concerned in the man. agement. of affairs i'm Mexico is as former German Consular onicial, whO< is credited with being one of tho bet posted mon on Mexican conditions in z tho employ of the German govern- ment This man until the outbreak X of the war had lived for many yeaT1 in Mexico. He is now under invest4- gation by the Secret Service.
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