The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-03-06

WASHINGTON, March I - Doctor
Zimmerman, the German foreign sec.
rotary, yesterday acknowledged the
authorship Of the letter now in the pos
session Of President Wilson, in which
il outlined the German plan to secure
an alliance with Mexico for war upon
the United States, with the suggestion
that Mexico secure the active eoopera.
tion Of japan for an invasion of the
UHited States in force. While the
authenticity Of the letter is beyond
question, Il had not been expected here
that the German foreign secretary
would make so open an acknowledge
ment of the authorship.
Yesterday Doctor Zimmerman was
called into conference, first by the
Kaiser and then by Chancellor Won
Bethmann- Hollweg, according to a re-
port from Berlin. It is believed that
the conferences were in reference to
the note which Doctor Zimmerman
sent TO Won Eckhardt.
Spilled the Beans ..,. s&4
Dispatches from Switzerland quote
a number of the Swiss papers published
in German, severely criticizing Doctor
Zimmerman for his plotting against
the United States, deploring the fact
that the plot having been discovered
necessarily brings TO nought the Ger.
man propaganda maintained in the
United States, reduces to nothing the
value Of the work so far accomplished
and obviates its continuance. "The
end Of the American propaganda has
eome,'' is fhe way the Nachrichten
II n
more pro-German work in the United
States. -, ,H......
Zimmerman Explanation ..g f..
Doctor Zimmerman advances his ex-
PLANTATION of the Won Eckhardt letter
in an interview with the Overseas
News Agency, the official press agent
IF the German government. He said, in
response to the interviewer of the
Overseas, that it is impossible at this
time to discuss the facts of the alleged
lplot, the circumstances being unpropi.
tious. -a1. lis. - sF.r' y. B. .t
| He asked that he be allowed to- limit
his answer to the contents of the
English reports which, be pointed out
are not inspired by sympathy for Ger
many He said he fails to see how
the ''piot" is inspired by unfriendli
less on Germany's part. q.
at would mean" he declared
nothing that Germany would us'
means universally admitted to b,
! those of war in case the United State
declared war" 3D.. -... ....
He charged that an Argentine pape
, revealed the plot" when told how
he United States year ago suggested
to other Latin-American countrie
common action against Germany AM
her allies. >"--,. 49,
No American Plot
Expressing surprise at the franknes
, even of this statement, American Off
Gals take exception to the referenc
to any American combination hostil
to Germany, claiming that the refer
snce to a "Pan-American plot" is
distorted and erroneous understanding
|. or Interpretation of the quite prope
, efforts of the United States to pre-
tect neutral commerce In the Wester
Hemisphere. The Pan American cOur
e ell planned a'a zone" two hundre
= miles wide along the American coas
from Cape Horn to Canada, with
which belligerent wafships and sui
b marines would not be permitted TO il
terfere with merchant vessels. No Al
ton WAS taken on this plan, it wa
o said today. Ill.,,
Meanwhile Carranza Denies
\. First Chief .CarranZa of Mexico
IS after keeping silence for two days an
/. refusing to answer questions or see an
persons seeking information, yesterda
/ ISSUED statement in which he veh
d mently denied any knowledge of tn
Ie German plot to induce Mexico an
A. Japan to enter into an alliance
a no..n n, or rnI,Io