Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-01

D1Az THAT HIS RULE WOULD
HAVE TO COME TO AN END. HE
DID THIS BECAUSE HE KNEW
THAT AMERICAN INTERVENTION
WAS INEVITABLE IF THE JAPA-
NESE TREATY WAS CoNSUMMAT-
ED, AND. AT ALL COSTS, HE IN
SISTED ON PREVENTING THAT
INTERVENTION.
In other words, Limantour, the great
est power in Mexico, the man who held
the purse strings, threw over Diaz ut
the moment of his power in order to
save Mexico from foreign intervention.
and Francisco /. Madero became pres
ident after the moving picture" bat
tie OF JuareZ. which was q staged
affair to save the face of the Diaz gov
eminent. 1t had been agreed that aft
er Madero took Juarez, Diaz would
abdicate.
Thus, for the time being, the Ger
man Vaccinations to cement q Japa-
nese- Mexican alliance came to naught,
but the kaiser persisted in his efforts.
Madero was a true friend of the
United States. Therefore German
agencies worked against him.
Germany at once sent to Mexico
City as her minister there, Admiral
Won Hintze, who personally had OPEN
ly favored the Madero revolution. But
as ] have explained the ambassadors
from Germany have no real influence
in Mexico and this was merely a blind
for the benefit Of the United States.
While Won Hintze was In Mexico
City, German merchants and consuls
and bankers were conspiring against
the Madero regime and supplying rev.
olutionists with money.
Pascual Orozoo was put in command
of the federal forces In the north Of
Mexico as q reward for his services
to the Madero revolution, but Orozco.
who had risen from the position of q
muleteer, had swollen ideas of his own
Importance and was not satisfied at
his treatment. Consul Kueck, head of
the house Of Ketelsen and Degetau at
Chihuahua and also president of the
chamber Of commerce, gave Orozco
the money to finance his revolution
against Medaro and tried in every way
to bring about Intervention In Mex
leo.
After Huerta was in power, he even
offered money to Germans TO flee from
Mexico to enable him to report that
foreigners were being driven out.
From information, gained while q
when Huerta was sent north to quen
the Orozco revolt, he persuaded Oroz-
CO to retire after the "phoney" battle
Of Bachimba and returned to Mexico
City the strong man of the hour.
When I spoke Of this to Raoul Madero
the other day. he said, How on earth
did you know this?"
Shortly afterwards, It was Felix
DiaZ, whose life Madero had spared
as q result of German representations,
who made possible the coup which put
Huerta in power and resulted in Ma
dero's murder.
HUERTA APPROACHES JAPANESE,
No sooner was Huerta firmly es-
tablished in Mexico City than at the
instigation of Germany he attempted
to carry out Diaz' plans for an alli-
ance with Japan.
At this time l was serving in the
constitutionalist forces In the field
and was regarded with worse than sus-
picion by Germans in Mexico because
they did not know my reasons, and
Germany was supporting Huerta In
the face of his strained relations with
the United States.
All the time l was IN the constitu-
tionalist forces, German agents were
endeavoring to widen the breach be-
tween Carranza and Villa Consul
Kueck who was greatly instrumental
In doing this, besides secretly aiding
Huerta, was so implicated in a con-
spiracy by papers found in chest be-
longing to General Salvador Mercado
when Villa took Ojinaga, that he fled
across the desert into the United
States by automobile.
When the downfall of Huerta be-
came assured through the American
seizure of Vera Cruz, ostensibly to OBJ
tain a salute to the flag, but actually
to prevent the dictator from getting
arms and ammunition being sent to
him in German vessels, Kueck applied |
for permission to return to Mexico, |
where he hoped to widen still further |
the growing breach between Villa and
Carranza-
While I was in Mexico, Captain Won
Papen was also there, and he remain |
ed there until the beginning of the war !
In Europe, when we were all ordered
to other points. myself received de-
tailed. instructions as to what line of |
action to take In the event of an open
break between Villa and Carranza,
and although Villa could not be .
reached by Germany. his mind was
slowly but steadily poisoned against
the United States.
With Boy Eds recall at the request !
of the United States, Americans are !
familiar; but through my association |
with the secret agents of many gov !,
ernments, and THROUGH CONVEX
SATIONS I HELD WITH BOY ED !
IN NEW YORK, know
that the captain returned to Mexico
on German submarine and while
there paved the way for the thinner
mann note.
SUBMARINE BASES IN MEXICO.
More important still. while in Mexico
on this clandestine visit. Boy-Ed Sc