The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-01
.GERMANY'S MINISTER To
MEXICO INSTRUCTED To
FOMENT WAR WITH j. 5.

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break of war with the United States,
and suggest that the. President Of Mex.
leo. on his own initiative, should COM
municate with Japan, suggesting adj
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 compel England to
make peace In few months.
(Signed) "Z1MMER&ANN."
This document has been in the hands
of the government since President
Wilson broke of diplomatic relations
with Germany. II has been kept Sc
cret while the President has been ask
ing Congress for full authority to deal
with Germany, and while Congress has
been hesitating. It was in the Presi-
dents hands while Chancellor Won
Bethmann.Hollweg was declaring that
the United States had placed an inter-
probation on the submarine declara-
ton never intended by Germany" and
that Germany had promoted and hon.
ored friendly relations with the United
States ''as an heirloom from Frederick
the Great"
The document supplies the missing
link to many chains of circumstances
which until now have seemed to lead
to no definite point. II sheds new light
upon the frequently reported, but In,
definables movements OF the Mexican
to couple It's situation With
the friction between the United States
and Japan. II adds another chapter
to the celebrated report Of Jules Cam.
bon, French ambassador in Berlin be.
fore the war, Of Germany's worldwide
plans for stirring strife on every CONT
nent 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 Berpstorff and the German embas.
sy in this country, which have been col
ored with passport frauds, charges Of
dynamite plots and intrigue, the full
extent of which never has been pub
lished.
It gives new credence to persistent
reports OF submarine bases on Next
can territory in the Gulf of Mexico;
1t takes cognizance Of fact long rec
ognized by American army chiefs, that
II Japan ever undertook to invade the
United States It probably would be
through Mexico, over the border and
into the Mississippi valley to split the
country in two. It recalls that Count
Won Bernstorff when handed his pass.
ports was very reluctant to return to
Germany, but expressed preference
for asylum in Cuba. 1t gives a new ex-
PLANTATION to the repeated arrests on
the border of men charged by the
American military authorities with be.
ing German intelligence agents.
Last Of all, 1t seems to show con-
nection with General Carranza's re-
cent proposal to neutrals that exports
of food and the fact that Carranza had
called in many of his diplomats for
conferences" Some time before that,
Cabrera while still at Atlantic City in
the conferences Of the American-Mexi-
can joint commission, had suggested
in guarded way to a mer5er of the
American section, that he regretted
that the commission had not succeeded
fully In settling the differences between
Mexico and the United States, for, he
said, he had hoped 1t might continue
its work and mako peace for the world.
When pressed for some details how
the commission could restore world
peace, Cabrera suggested that the
American republics controlled the des.
tiny Of the war by controlling large
part of its supplies. Mexico, he intI-
nnafed might do her mart nv emitting
off exports of oil. The American com.
missioners,, however. dismissed his
ideas as visionary.
Almost coIncident with Zubaran's
return from Germany, Cabrera return.
ed to Mexico. City, open in his express
sions of anti-Amertcanism. Zubaran,
before being sent abroad, had repre-.
tented General CarranZa here while
the Niagara mediation conferences
were proceeding and was no less
avowedly anti.American than Cabrera.
Meanwhile, Baron Won Schoen, sec
Rotary of the German embassy here,
was transferred to the legation In Mex.
leo City. No explanation could be OBJ
tanned for the reason of his transfer,
and such investigation as was possible
failed TO develop why a secretary from
the United States should be sent to
the German legation in Mexico. Baron
Won Schoenss association with the
moves. IL any at all. does not appear.
The only outward indication that he
might have been connected with them
is found in, the fact that he recently
had been detached from the German
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