Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-03-09

| OF Ule MeAlCdu SONSIni]chl " NouPA~
its situation with the friction between
! the United States and Japan.
1t adds another chapter to the cele-
brated report of Jules Cambon, French
| ambassador in Berlin before the war,
of Germany's worldwide plans for STIR
ring strife on every continent where
they might aid her in the struggle for
world domination which she dreamed
was close at hand.
| 1t adds a climax TO the operations or
| Count Won Bernstorff and the German
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.
Emphasizes Our Perls.
IT gives new credence to persistent
reports of submarine bases on MeN-
can territory in the Gulf of Mexico;
it takes cognizance of fact long rec
ognized by American army chlefs,
that if Japan ever undertook to in
wade the United States it probably
would be through Mexico, over the
border and into the Mississippi valley
to split the country in two.
1t recalls that Count Won Bernstorft
when handed his passports was very
reluctant to return to Germany, put
expressed a preference for asylum In
Cuba.
1t gives a new explanation to the
repeated arrests on the border of men
charged by American military authors
ties with being German intelligence
agents.
Last of all, it seems to show 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 intimati0n
that he might stop the supply OF Oil,
so vital to the British navy, which is
| exported from the Tampico fields.
What Will Congress Dor
What congress will do, and how
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
nti-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.
| 1t was declared by a 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 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: 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 separate peace with
the Teutonic powers. But above all
| that he said the Japanese sincerely
| desired friendly relations with the
| United States.
President Confirms Note.
| Washington, Marcn 5. - senator
| Swanson of Virginia announced in the
senate today that he had been au
thorized by the president TO state the
| Zimmerman note of January 10, 1917,
| inviting Mexico to join Germany in
war against the United States as pub
lished this morning was textually cor
| rect.
Knew Nothing of 1t.
At the Japanese embassy in this city
it was declared 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 waste
basket, 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 1.-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 with the allies