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Property u All Foreigner E
cept Germans Unsafe While
Kaiser'a Legation Advises
and Banks FinanceN Nation.
washington. d. April l7.FurtHcr
evidences Of German activities i Neil
q. Sspreading anti-American q anti
entente propaganda and exerting der
MI influence upon the Mexicau
eminent are contained In diplomatic rc-
ports passing through here to European
capitals.
Funds of a number Of foreignebanks
are reported to be in danger.CirCpla-
ton OF any matter at all favorablet0
the United States or the entente ID
disapproved by Mexican officials. and
was suppressed because OF publications
disapproved by German agents.
publishers and editors have been suMl
moned before military tribunal.
All Property III Danger.
Property@of foreigners. Germans
cepted, Is said to be In constant dalr-
ger; efforts Of this German propagan-3
Is - II GklAA 6C1kI6 00AkA6
cialiy against anything which might be
of interest to the enemies OF Germany.
The writer Of mi OF h repprtB asserts
that he has Information that $4,000
barrels Of oil, h property Of the Seagles
been burned at Minatilan.
The German bank and th0 Germ IN
legation In Mexico City are said In
these reports to be dominating Mexican
affairs more than ever: the former hav-
Mexican finances and the latter guild
ing and advising the government.
TRADE AGAINST U. s.
Washington, D. c., April 17.3Tho
army Of 1000, 600 men which h United
States is about to raise for var with
Germany may find itself marching to
Mexico City instead Of Berlin.
An off ffinia
many years to create friendlier rela-
tons between the two republics admit
ted to me that the United States is
exposed to greater danger from the
Mexican than from the European quar-
ter. He said he has detailed inforina-
ton disclosing that Mexico is alive
with German reseryists being organized
for an attack on the United States and
that Germans have been going in large
numbers from Cuba to Mexico since the
island republic aligned itself with the
American nation against the Berlin
government
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cARRANzA BEFORE CONGRESS.
Washington, ID. c., April 1T.--GeneraI
C-arranza, in his address to congress.
declared that Mexico would maintain
a strict and rigorous neutrality in the
world war. III. Won Eckhardt, the Gers
mar minister, was seated in a box with
the Austrian, Spanish and other dip
lomats Henry p. Fletcher sat with
the British minister.
General Garranza also read 10 the
congress, which held it's first formal
session, a complete report of his adj
m~inistration as first chief. The mar
rative extended from the time Of the
Madero revolution in 1910. Particular
attention was given the revolt against
Madero by Felix Diaz in 1912. General
C~arranza declared that tho failure to-
treat Diaz with severity was a great
mistake, as it allowed the awakening Of
the ambitions of Diaz and old favorites.
He gave in detail the alleged efforts OF
Henry Lane Wilson, then American
ambassador to Mexico, to influence him
as follows:
Just after the assassination of Pres
ident Madero the consul and vice con-
sui of the United States visited me at
the government palace in Saltil1o un,3er
instructions from Henry Lane Wilson,
the American ambassador to bring
pressure to make me desist in my atti-
tude Of n~onrecognition Of the Huerta
government. They insistently affirmed
that all resistance would be futile be-
cause Huerta had immense ~resourees.
sufficient to choke the revolt in Goa.
hula, and they made known to me that
the government of Huerta had been
recognized by all other governments.
including the United States, which had
diplomatic representatives in Mexico.
and added that by order of the ambas-
sador all the other governors had ac-
cepted the governments and that / was
the only one maintaining a rebellious
attitude.
Tells His Peace Terms.
TN answer I said | would not accept
the arrangement n would follow my
duty as governor of the state, whatever
the outcome. Afterwards / obtained a.
full copy of Ambassador Wilson's mes
sage to the said consuls to bring PRES
sure upon me. A few days laterIyice
Consul Sillinan asked what would be
my condition to avoid war, saving he
would transmit the conditions to HUI
erta through Ambassador Wilson.
Il wrote in reply that my terms were
that Huerta and the others connected
with h Cuarte1azzo leave the country
IN that the capital be evacuated and
occupied by troops OF Coahuila and
Sonora, and that congress designate q
legal substitute for the president. Mr..
Silliman promised to zee that this let
ter reached the capitol, but I never had
an answer.
Knox Statement False.
1T is sopportune to make clear the
facts, in View of the recent interview
given by Senator Knox in the United
States in which he said the intarvan-
ton of Ambassador Wilson was due
only to the fact hat I had asked his
mediation, which is entirely false as
the facts are as above.
54Hse 54F
PLANS FOR HUGE FLEET.
Washington, d. c., April 16.-The adj.
mlnlstration's program for building a
vast fleet of wnadon no ,~ro rb;1.O l..