The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-04-06
Tells OF GERMAN
PLOT IN MEXICO
Zimmerman Proposed to Es-
tab!iS!! Submarine Ease.
DETAILS OF PLOT Barred
Teuton Foreign Minister Offered to
Furnish Arms and Men to Attack
American Eorder.

American GordeT.
Washington, Apri. 6.-The G nm n
impe.i.ti gOVerniacl-, in It's pct 10 ai-y
Mexico and Japan a5alnSG the III eu
States, propose. to eStaOlSD Suolnd-
rine base Gu the Mexican coast.
Through tbs IL offered 10 supply
Mexico with an unlimited Quant.t. OF
arms. it also offered to SEM lie N n
reservsLs ii the United Sti.e, 10
Mexico to be used as troop; against
this government in an attack aoAg
the .oathcrn border.
Father than this, Ge-maI Off GERS
now are drilling m4n VINO form tie
"arL:y' Of Francisco Villa MO train.
ed sCi .i,rs to he used Wien he Unit
ed States and Germany go to war.
These statements were made by
REPRESENTATIVE Miller, of Minnl ota,
a Republican member of the fore gn
affairs committee, during tie dCbate
on the wa. resolution in the house OF
representatives.
The full extent of Germany's in:ri-
que never had been barred by the "
eminent, Mr.. Miller said. para:
graph of the note sent by Dr.. 2 INNER
mann, the German fore gn minister,
was suppressed, he declared, when the
plot conceived by the government at
Berlin was made known.
The unpublished portions OF the
Zimmerman note, Mr.. Miller quoted
as follows:
"AgreeaDly to the Mexican govern
ment, submarine bases will be estab,
lished at Mexican ports frcm which
will be supplied arms, ammunition and
supplies. .Nli reseryists are ordered
! into Mexico. Arrange to attack all
!, along the border"
It has bnen understood, but never
officially a-=cunccd, Mr.. M:ier said,
that tie lri; text of the Ziumerm4nn
instructions to Won Eckhart, the Ger
man minister in Mexico City, was not
published with the main portion.
Members of the foreign affairs M
mittee, he said, had been suppl ed
with the al text, and with other
evidences q German intrigue against
I this government.
Mr.. Miller added that he unierst Cd
three German schooners had landed
on the western coast of Mexico and
that Villa vas surrounded by German
/ officers. Reliable inform ton, he
said, was that the Carranza army was
mot much better"
When Nj. Miller's quotation was
submitted to Secrettry OF State Ian
sing, he declared the Zinlm ermann
I instructions contained nothing Of the
sort"
Mr.. Miller expressed no surprise
| when told ;hat the secretary denied
that there #as anything like the quo
sation in IL. Zimmerman note. Mr.
Miller said there was a reason for not
making 1t public at first. but that
there was 20 reason to suppress il
now.
~ believe the question is absolutely
correct" he added. 81 got it from a
man who is III a position to know. He
save It to rae as matter of consc en-,
tious duty.
The Zimnermann instructions to
! Won Eckhart. transmitted through
Count Won "ornstcrff, then German
ambaseadu" n "a hington, first were
revealed F.5fuarT %.
Dated more thon tel days bcf re
the snbma line campaign OF ruthless.
uess went i:,io effect. the instructions
disclosed that Germany, w lie Pre-
testing her intention to adhere to her
pledges on submarine warfare ev il
then was contemplating that the Uu +
ID States 10 longer would rem in ne :
trail.
propose: to Mexico an allan e
$500 t. "tt'Ck the United
States. eN<ico as Fart { her reward,
was to regain lost province" II Tex.
as, Arizona and New Mexico.