The Nevada County picayune., 1917-03-08
Mar on America by Alliance of
 Mexico and Japan With Teu- tons Proposed.
WILSON MAS THE EVIDENCE
President Has Copy of Official Instruc- tions Outlining Details of Conspir- aey Against Our Government- Carranza Told to Recon
 quer Texas, Arizona
 and New Mexico.

Washington, March 3.--On Friday morning the Western Newspaper Union was enabled to reveal that Ger many in planning unrestricted subma- rine warfare and counting its conse- quenceS, proposed an alliance with Mexico and Japan to make war on the United States if this country should not remain neutral
 Japan, through Mexican mediation, was to be urged to abandon her allies and join fl the attack on the United States.
 Mexico, for her reward, was to re- ceive general financial support from Germany, reconquer Texas, New Mex leo and Arizona-i0st provinces-and share in the victorious peace terms Germany contemplated.
 Details of the Plot.
 Details were left to German Min ister von Eckhardt in Mexico City. who by instructions signed by Ger man Foreign Minister Zimmermann at Berlin January 19, 1917 was direct ed to propose the alliance with Mex ieo to General Carranza and suggest that Mexico seek to bring Japan into he plot.
 These instructions were transmitted ID Von Eckhardt through Count von Bernstorff, former German ambas- sador here, now on his way home to fa ah- taned from his enemies by the eoun- try against which he Was plotting Har.
 Pictures World Dominion.
 Germany pictured to Mexico by broad intimation England and fhe en= tente allies defeated; Germany and her allies triumphant and in world domination by the instrument of un- restricted warfare.
 A copy of Secretary Zimmermann' instructions to Non ECkhardt, sent through Von BernstorG. k in posses sion of the United States government.
 Duplicity Is Exposed
 The document has been in the hands I son broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. Ii has been kept secret while the president has been asking congress for full authority to deal with Germany, and while congress has been heSitatng. Ii was in tine presidents hands while Chancelior von Bethmann- IIollwcg was declaring that the United States had placed an interpretation on the submarine declaration never in- tended by Germany" and that Ger many had promoted and honOred friendly relations with the United States "as an heirloom from Fredericl, the Great"
 of itself, If there were no other. il is considered sufficient answer to the German chancelior's plaint that the United States "brusquely" broke of re latlons without giving ..authentie" req sons for it's action.
 Supplies fIissing Link.
 The document supplies the missing link to many separate chains of cir cumstnnces. which until now have
 
 IL sheds new light upon the frequent ty reported but indefinable movements of the Mexican government to couple it's situation with the friction between the United States and Japan.
 Ii adds another chapter to the cele- brated report of Jules Cumbon, French ambassador in Berlin before the war, of Germany's world wide 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.
 IL adds d climax to the operations of Count von BernstOrn 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.
 IL gives new credence to persistent 'eportS of submarine bases on McXi- ,aa territory in the Gulf of Mexico { takes cognizance of a fact long rec Dgnized by American army chiefs, that If Japan ever undertook to in vade the United States fl probably would be through Mexico. over the border and into the Mississippi valley 0 split the country in two
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