The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-01
Money Offered to Carranza
for Fight to Regain "Lost
Provinces Across Bor-
der Details Of Conspir-
acy Known to President
Wilson Since Break With
Kaiser.

4ACt40OAs
Washington, Mar. 1.-THE Asso-
ciated Press is enabled to reveal that
Germany, in planning unrestricted
submarine warfare and counting its
consequences, proposed an alliance
with Mexico and Japan to make wal
oil the United States if this country
should not remain neutral Japan
Y through Mexican mediation, was to
Is be urged to abandon her allies and
Join in the attack on the United
States
Mexico, for. her reward, was to re-
ceive general financial support from
4 Germany, reconquer Texas, New Mex
leo and Arizona-her "lost provinces
land share in the victorious peace
4 terms Germany contemplated.
Details were. left to German Min
( lister Won Eckhardt in Mexico City,
who by instructions signed by German
d Foreign Minister Zimmerman a.
Ii Berlin January 10, 1877, was direct
ed to propose the alliance with Mex
leo to Gen. Carranza and suggest that
\ Mexico seek to bring Japan. into the
X plot.
These Instructions were transmit
ted to Won Eckhardt through Count
won Bernstorff, former German Am
hassador here. now on his way home
ito Germany under a safe conduct OBJ
d tanned from his enemies by the coun-
try against which he was plotting war
Germany pictured Is Mexico BY
II broad inti1nation England and the
Entente Allies defeatads Germany and
v her allies trump hant and in world
taonhination BY the Instrument 4f IN
restricted submarine warfare
IA copy Of Zimmermann'S instrucr
lions to VINO Eckhardt sent thrpugh
Won Bernstorff is In possession Of the
II United States government It is as
& follows: aassss Ell
Berlin. JanSVar 81
IS ron the first OF Fsbruar we
a intend to begin submarine war
fare unrestricted. I'm spite Of
this It is our intention. to. en-
deavor to keep neutral the United
States of America. Fs 81 u II. Nsisss
III this attempts is not success
full we propose an alliance on the
ga following basis with fexicc:
That we shall make war together
and together make peace we n
6l1aH give 8G1Ne14 HHdIhCiHA ~ -
port and 1t is understood that
Mexico is to recOnquer the lost
territory in New Mexico. Texas
and Arizona. The details are lett
to yout for settlement.
X ssYou are instructed to inform
the Presideat OF Mexico OF the
above in the greatest confidence
as soon as 1t Is certain there Will
be an outbreak of war with the
United States and suggest that
the President of Mexico on MS
own initiative should commuhi-
cate with Japan suggesting ad-
herence at once to this plan; at
the same time offer TO mediate
Between Germany and Japan.
wv please call to- the attention OF
the President Of Mexico that the
employment Of ruthless supma-
rfne warfare now promises to &
compel England to make peace
IS b fsigne,dl ZIMMERMANN.
This document has been in the
hands Of the government since fresl-
dent Wilson broke off diplomatic re-
lations with Germany. It has been
Y kept secret while the President mas
4 been asking Congress for full author
dty to deal with Germany and while
congress has been hesitating.
It was in the Presidents hand
while Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg was declaring that the
United States had placed an interpre-
tation on the submarine declaration
never intended by Germany" and
( that Germany had promoted and hon
ored friendly relations with the
United States Gas an heirloom from
frederick the Great.''
OF itself, if there. were no other,
It is considered sufficient answer to
kes German Chancellor's plant that
s.ae United States "brusquely'' broke
Z OF relations without giving anthem
tic reasons forsit action.
The document supplies the missing
Hing to many separate chains Of cir
cumstances, which until now have
Y seemed to lead to no definite point.
Z, IL sheds new light upon the frequent
lys reported but indefinite movements
Ok the Mexican government to couple
its situation with the friction be-
tween the United States and Japan.
It adds another chapter to the cele-
brated report Of Jules Cambon,
A FRENCH xAIIlDdSSduOT. III Berlin DeIOr0
the war, Of Germanys world wide
plan for stirring strife on every con-
tinent where they might aid her in
the struggle for world domination,
which she dreamed was close at
hand.
1t adds climax to the operations
of Count Won Bernstorff and the Ger
man Embassy in this country. which
have been colored with passport
frauds, charges of dynamite plots and
fntrigues, thief u1l extent Of which
never has been made public.
It gives new credence to persistent
reports of submarine bases on Mexi-
ran territory in the Gulf Of Mexico
1t takes cognizance of a fact long
recognizedsby Anne ricap Army chiefs
that If JAp4hS ever undertook to in
wade the United States it. probably
would be through Mexico, over the
border and into the Mississippi val
ley to split the country in two.
It recalls that Count Won Bern
storff, when his passports were hand
ed to him, was very reluctant to re-
turn to Germany. but expressed a
preference for asylum in Cuba 1t
gives new explanation to the re-