Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-01
situation ended
 Japan Has Made RepJy.

ona. dctIoil Ill proposing that
 apah lorh traitor to her allies had oeen answered by Tokyo.
 count Von Bernstorff's connnct,o, "lth the plot, further than his serv- ices as channel for the passage of ihstrucCons, has not been established put IL IS known that the German em oo"ss was not merely a medium for 'ne oistrloutlon of the information
 gathered, but was really a sort of heaoquarters for all the German mis- slons in Central and South Americ. me German naval attache, Captain 6oy-Ed, and the military attache, count Von Papen, Wnose recall was forced by the state department because or military activities in this country. also were accredited to Mexico, and between the outbreak of the war and
 their departure for Germany. made at least one visit there.
 Raiders Have Base in Mexico9
 For months naval officers here have
 pelleVed that the mysterious German
 raiders of the South Atlantic must nave found a base on the Mexican coast, and that such a base could not
 be maintained without the knowledge and consent of the Mexican officials.
 Last November the British charge at Mexico City presented to Carranza's foreign office notice that if it was dis covered that Mexico's neutrality had thus been violated, the allies would take drastic measures to prevent a continuance of that situatIon."
 In note almost insolent in It's tone, Foreign Minister Aguilar replied to the charge that it was the business of the allies to keep German submarines out of western waters, and that if they were not kept out Mexico would adopt whatever course the circumstances might demand.
 To German influences also have been attributed in some quarters the vigorous steps taken by the de facto government to force the Banco Nazionale and the Bank of London and Mexico, owned largely by French and British capital, to make loans to the government. The institutions were closed and some of their officers i'm prisoned and held for weeks, despite protests by France, Great Britain and the United States.
 Germans in Carranza Army.
 Reports of German machine guns and German gunners in Carranza's s army also have been persistent, al thought the relative importance of this to the proposed alliance has not been fully established. vember, when the MeXican-Amerfcan commission was making futile efforts to adjust the differences between Mexico and the United States, the Austro-Hungarian ambassador atI Mexico City, Count Kalman Kama Volkayana, made trip to the United States on what he described as al "secret mission" A suggestion in terpreted by some officials as jndica- ton that Germany might have made approaches to Mexico at that time, was made by Cabrera in an address atl Philadelphia on November 10.
 "The foes of the Uni. cd States will certainly be friends to Mexico" Mr. Cabrera said, "and will try to take advantage of any sort of resentment Mexico may have against the United States. Mexico, nevertheless, under stands that in case of conflict bel tween the United States and any other nation outside of America, her attitude should be one of continental solidar- ity."
 Secret Se~vice Trails Uncovered.
 It has been an open secret at thel department of justice that agents In their investigations of plots to violate American neutrality by setting on foot armed expeditions in Mexico, more than once have uncovered what ap- peared to be trails of the German secret service. A few days ago Fred Kaiser, suspected of being a German agent, was arrested at NOgales, on charges brought under the neutrality statutes, the department of justice de- claring that he had attempted to ob- tain military information on the Mex1- | can side of the border, and had culti- vated the society of American army officers. with an apparent intent Of promoting those efforts. Last July, when w. H. Schwendz, who claimed to- be a former German army officer, es- caped into Mexico at Nogales after be- ing arrested on similar charges, the deputy marshal who tried to follow him was stopped by Mexican author1- ties.
 The full extent of the German plot against the United States, as gathered bv secret service agents, may become known, only according to the future relations between the two countries. IT. : I,ou,, +l,ot r,ouch evidence of the