The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-01
GERMANY'S PLOT AGAINST UNITED STATES
WAS NOT WE'LL RECEIVED IN JAPAN
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out of western waters, and that if they
Ewere not kept out, Mexico would adopl
/ whatever course the circumstances might
commend.
The German influences also have beer
attributedin some quarters to the vigorous
steps taken by the de facto finance min.
lister to force loans from the Banco Ma.
tional and the Bank of London and Mex
leo. owned by French and British capital
The institutions were closed by the Mex
lean officials and some of their officers
imprisoned and held for weeks despite
repeated protests by France, Great Brit
ain and the United States.
Reports of German machine guns and
German gunners in the Carranza army
also have been persistent, although the
relative Importance of that to the pro-
posed alliance is not fully established.
1t is recalled, too. that last November
when the Mexican American joint com
mission was making its futile effort to
adjust the difficulties between the two
| countries, the Austro- Hungarian ambas-
sador at Mexico City, Count Kalman
Kama Votkanya, made a trip to the
| United States on what he described as
"secret mission"
A suggestion interpreted by some of
fieials as an indication that Germany
might have made approaches to Mexico
at that time was made by Cabrera in an
address at Philadelphia on November 10.
"The foes of the United States will
certainly assume to be friends of Mex
ico,' said Mr.. Cabrera, "and will try to
al Jx..r e DD,@H F
ment Mexico may have against the Unit
ed States Mexico, nevertheless, under
stands that in case of conflict between
the United States and any other nation
outside America, her attitude must be
one of continental solidarity"
1t has been an open secret that de-
partment of justice agents in their in
designations of plots to violate Ameri-
can neutrality by setting on foot armed
expedition in Mexico more then once
have uncovered what appeared to be
trails of the German secret service. A
few days ago, Fred Kaiser, suspected of
being German agent, was arrested at
Nogales on charges brought under the
neutrality statutes, department of JUS |
tice agents declaring hs hao attempted to
obtain military information on the
American side of the border and had
cultivated The society of American army |
officers with an apparent intention of pro-
noting those efforts.
Last July, when W. H. Schweibz, who |
claimed to be former German army Off
GER, escaped into Mexico at Nogales,
after arrest on similar charges, the depu-
ty marshal who tried to follow him was
stopped by Me, can authorities.
The full extent of the evidence of
Germany's plotting against the United
States gathered by the American secret
service may become known only accord
ing to- the course of the future relations
between the two countries. 1t is known
that much evidence of the operations of
the German embassy and persons who
were responsible to it never has been
permitted to come out. because officials
preferred to guard against inflaming the
public mind in the tense situation with
Germany. The public amazement which
, full exposition of the evidence in the
hands of the government would cause
.annot be overestimated.