The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-03-08

~ reported but indehnaOle movements
Of the Mexican government to couple
its situation with the friction between
the United States and Japan.
1t adds another chapter to the cele-
brated report of Jules Cambon. French
ambassador in Berlin before the war,
OF Germany's worldwide plans for stir
ring strife on every continent where
they might aid her in the struggle for
world domination which she dreamed
was close at hand.
1t adds a climax to the operations of
Count Won Bernstorff and the German
embassy in this country, which have
been colored with passport frauds.
| charges of dynamite plots and intrigue,
the full extent of which never has been
published.
Emphasizes Our Perils.
1t gives new credence to persistent
reports OF submarine buses on Mexi-
can territory in the Gulf of Mexico; !;
1t takes cognzance of fact long rec
ognized by American army chiefs,
that If japan ever undertook to in
wade the United States it probably
would be through Mexico, over the
border and into the Mississippi valley
to split the country in two.
1t recalls that Count Won Bernstorf
when handed his passports was very
reluctant to return to Germany, but
expressed q preference for asylum in
Cuba.
1t gives a new explanation to the
repeated arrests on the border of men
charged by American military authori-
ties with being German Intelligence
agents.
Last of all, 1t seems to show a con-
nection with General Carranza's re-
cent proposal to neutrals that exports
of food and munitions to the entente
allies be cut Off, and an intimatiOn
that he might stop the supply of oil,
so vital to the British navy, which is
exported from the Tampico fields.
What viii Congress Dor
What congress will do, and how
members of congress who openly have
sympathized with Germany in their
opposition to clothing the president
with full authority to protect Ameri-
can rights will regard the revelation
of Germany's mnchinatiol $ to attack
the United States Is the subject of the
keenest interest.
Such proposal as Germany in
structed her minister to make to Mexi-
co borders on an act of war, IL, actu-
ally, 1t is not one.
No doubt exists here now that the
persistent reports during the last two
years of the operations of German
agents not alone in Mexico but all
through Central America and the West
Indies are based on fact.
There is now no doubt whatever
that the proposed alliance with Mex
leo was known to high Mexican Off
cials who are distinguished for their
Rafael Zubaran, Carranza's minister
to Germany, and Luis Cabrera, Car
ranza's minister Of finance.
The Hand Of Mexico.
1t is apparent that the proposal had
l-taken definite form when Zubaran re-
turned to Mexico City from Berlin re-
Gently. His return from his foreign
post was covered by the fact that Car
rnnza had called in many OF his diplo-
mats for conferences"
Denied at Japanese Embassy.
1t was declared by high Japanese
authority on Wednesday night that II
the German proposal of an alliance
ever reached Tokyo it was regarded as
merely Il new ebullition of German
''kultur" and that it was thrown in the
wastebasket where it belonged.
| He asserted no such proposal had
been made to the embassy here and
that If it had been no attention would
have been paid to it.
He said: 1.-THE whole Idea. was abso-
1utely preposterous."
In order to make an alliance with
Germany, he added, 1t would be neces-
sary for Japan to break from the allies
and negotiate II separate peace with
the Teutonic powers. But above all
that, he said, the Japanese sincerity
desired friendly relations with the
United States.
President Confirms Note.
Washington. March 8. = Senator
Swanson of Virginia announced in the
senate today that he had been au-
thoriZed by the president to state the
Zimmerman note of January 10, 1917,
inviting Mexico to join Germany in
avar against the United States ms pub
llshed this morning was textually cor
rect.
Knew Nothing Of It.
At.the japanese embassy in this city
1T was declared that If the German
proposal of an alliance ever reached
new ebullition of German "kultur"
and that 1t was thrown in the waste
basket, where it belonged.
He asserted no such proposal had
been made to the embassy here and