The Springdale news., 1917-03-02

Washington Feb. 28.-The Associat- ed Press Is enabled to reveal that Germany, in planning unrestricted submarine warfare and counting it's consequences, proposed an alliance with Mexico and Japan, to make war on the United States, if this country should not remain neutral.
 Japan, through Mexican mediation, was to be urged to abandon her allies and to join in the attack on the United States.
 Mexico, for her reward, was to re- eeive general financial support from Germany, reconquer Texas, New Mex jco and Arizona-lost provinces and share in the victorious peace terms Germany contemplated.
 Details were left to German Minis ter von Eckmart, in Mexico City, who, by instructions signed by German Foreign Minister Zimmerman at Der lin, January 19, 1917, was directed to propose the alliance with Mexico to General Carranza and suggest that Mexico seek to bring Japan into the plot
 These instruction were transmitted to von Eckhardt through Count Von Bernstorff, former German ambassa dor here, now on his way home to Germany, under safe conduct obtained from his enemies by the country 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 submarine warfare.
 This information has been in the hands of the government since Presi- dent Wilson broke off diplomatic rela- tions with Germany It has been kept secret while the president has been asking congress for full author ity to deal with Germany and while congress has been hesitating. It was in the presidents hands while Chan celor von Rethmann-H Hollweg was dee iaring that the United States had placed an interpretation on the sub marine declaration never intended by Germany and that Germany had promoted and henored friendly rela- tions with the United States as an heirloom from Fredrick the Great"
 Of itself if there were no other, It Is considered a sufficient answer to the German chancellor's plaint that the United States "brusquely" broke off relations without giving authentic" reasons for it's action.
 The document supplies the missing link to many separate chains of clrcu- instances. which, until now, have seemed to lead to no definite point. It sheds new light upon the frequently reported but indefinable movement of the Mexican government to couple its situation with the friction between the United States and Japan. It adds another chapter to the celebrated re- port of Jules CamDon, French am bassador in Berlin, before the war, of Germany's world wide plans fer strr-. ing strife on every continent where they might aid her in the struggle for world domination which she dreamed was close at hand
 Ii adds climax to the operations of Count von 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.
 It gives new credence to persisent reports of submarine bases on MeXI- can territory in the Gulf of Mexico; 1t takes eoenzance of a fact long rec ognized by American army chefs that if Japan ever undertook to invade the United States, it probably would be through Mexico over the border and into the Mississippi valley to split the country in two.
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