Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-03-07

Dreak or war With me OnlIeo StdtSS, and suggest that the president of Mex ico, on his own initiative, should com municate with Japan, suggesting ad- herence at once to this plan; at the same time offer to mediate between Germany and Japan.
 Please call to the attention of the president of Mexico that the employ ment of ruthless submarine warfare now promises to compeiI En6land to make peace in few months.
 (sianed) ZIMMERMANN.
 It recalls that Count von Bernstorff when handed his passports was very reluctant to return to Germany, but expressed preference for asylum in Cuba.
 It 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 con- neetion with General Carranza's re-
 
 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 Will Congress Do? 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 machinations' 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, if, 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 ico was known to high Mexican off cials who are distinguished for their nti-Americanism. Among them are Rafael Zubaran, Carranza's minister to Germany, and Luis Cabrera, Car
 ranza's minister of finance. The Hand of Mexico. It is apparent that the proposal had 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
 ranza had called in many of his diplo- ! mats for conferences" Denied at Japanese Embassy. It was declared by a high Japanese authority on Wednesday night that if the German proposal of an alliance ever reached Tokyo it was regarded as merely a 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: '3The whole idea was abso- lutely preposterous."
 In order to make an alliance with Germany, he added, it would be neces-
 sary for Japan to break from the allies and negotiate a separate peace with the Teutonic powers. But above all that, he said, the Japanese sincerely desired friendly relations with the United States.
 Did Not Receive Proposal. Washington. was declared by a high Japanese authority that if the
 German proposal of an alliance ever reached Tokyo it was regarded as merely 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: "The whole idea was ab- solutely preposterous. In order to make an alliance with
 Germany, he added, it would be neces- sary for Japan to break from the allies and negotiate a separate peace witt
 the Teutonic powers. But above al
 that, he said, the Japanese sincerela
 desired friendly relations with t.. i United States.