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PRESIDENT WILSON D|SC[0SFS TO CONGRESS
EVIDENCE OF INTRIGUE IN Which GERMAN
MINISTER COUNT Won BERNS7R0FF FIGURED

ernment while German statesmen
have been pleading that President
Wilson's action in breaking of diplo-
matte relations was 'brusque' and
harsh and that they were informed of
no authentic reason" for his action.
While Chancellor Won Bethmarn- IioIl-
veg was making his celebrated speech
in the Reichstag in which he deplored
the break and protested that Germany
had promoted and cherished the
friendship of the United States, this
documentary evidence in the hands of
officials here showed that Germany
was plotting an attack on the United
States by triple alliance.
H low Will They Reconcile Things?
American officials wonder how, in
the light of these disclosures, German
officials will reconcile their plea that
the United States put an interpreta-
ton on the new submarine orders
mot intended by Germany" with the
organized disabling of German mer-
chant ships in American ports, at a
prearranged signal from the German
embassy here-some of them even be-
fore the break was an accomplished
fact.
American officials are equally inter
ested in knowing what reception the
startling disclosures will meet in Ger
many and what will be the effect on
the German people if they are per-
mitted to know about them.
Toxic Threw Water On It.
The evidences at hand are that If
Mexico, as Germany suggested, com
municated to Japan the proposal for
an attack on the United States, it met
with a reception in Toxic which was
quite contrary to what Berlin had ex-
pected. 1t is thought here that Ger
many's announcement that she in
tended to withdraw from the Pacific
as part Of the making of peace, was
carefully planned long ago to attrac,
I Japan, to Germany's scheme, with the
prospect not only of occupying the
German possessions in the Pacific
adding to her domination of that great
ocean, but of settling the long stand,
ing friction with the United States.
Observers here believe that the out
break Of the scheme so far as Japan
was concerned was signalized wher
the Mexican government suddenly re-
versed its attitude and announced that
it had no intentions of cutting off the
British supply of naval fuel oil, az
had been plainly indicated in General
Carranza's proposal to make peace in
Europe by cutting off exports Of food
and munitions from neutrals.
Proof of Germany's Completely.
Aside from the plan to ALLEVIATE Jap
an from the entente and turn that
country against the United States, the
plot to embroil Mexico in wal
against the United States, which was
to have general financial support
from Germany, commands chief at
tention because it is regarded as proof
of long smouldering suspicious OF
German activities to stir up trouble
elsewhere on the western hemisphere
where the United States, by the Mon.
roe doctrine, is morally obligated tc
maintain order.
Many Difficulties.
Reports of German submarine
bases in the Gulf of Mexico hints OF
possible German influences behind Tho
uprising in Cuba; repeated assertions
that German influences were playing
upon all revolutionary factions in Mex
leo, with the sole purpose of embar
RAISING the United States; reports Of
resentment being stirred up against
the United States in Columbia, which