The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-07
GERMAN PLOT
AGAINST u. S.
IS REVEALED
War on America by Alliance OF
Mexico and Japan With Teu-
tons Proposed.
WILSON HAS The EVIDENCE
ticns Outlining Details of Conspir-
acy 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 it's 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 in 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-lost provinces-and
share in the victorious peace terms
Germany contemplated.
Details of the Plot.
Details were left to German Min
lister Won Eckhardt in Mexico City,
who by instructions signed by Ger
man Foreign Minister Zimmerman
at Berlin January 10, 1917, was direct
ed to propose the alliance with Mex
leo to General Carranza and suggest
that Mexico seek to bring Japan into
the plot
These instructions were transmitted
to Won Eckhardt through Count Won
BernStOrff, former German ambas-
sador here, now on his way home to
Germany under safe conduct OBJ
tanned from his enemies by the coun-
try against which he was plotting
war.
Pictures World Dominion.
Germany pictured to Mexico by
broad intimation England and the 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's
instructions to Won Eckhardt, sent
through Won Bernstorff, Is in possess
sion of the United States government.
DupIicity Is Exposed.
The document has been in the hands
of the government since President Will
son broke off diplomatic relations with
Germany. It has been kept secret
while the president has been asking
congress for full authority to deal with
Germany, and while congress has been
hesitating. 1t was in the presidents
hands while Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg 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 Frederick
the Great"
Of itself, If there were no other, it
is considered sufficient answer to the
German chancellor's plant that the
United States "brusquely" broke off re-
lations without giving authentic" rea-
sons for it's action.
Supplies Missing Link.
The document supplies the missing
link to many separate chains of cir
cumstances, which until now have
seemed to lead to no definite point. 4
1t sheds new light upon the frequent
~ reported but indefnable 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 q 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.
It gives new credence to persistent
reports of submarine bases on Mexi-
can territory in the Gulf of Mexico /;
1t takes cognizance of fact long rec
ognized by American army chiefs,
that If Japan ever undertook to in
wade tbs United States it probably
would be through Mexico, over the
border and into the Mississippi valley
to split the country in two.