The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-08-30
GERARD MEMOIR
 STIRS ENGLAND TO QUICK ACTION
Report That Germany Asked Her to End Monroe Doc
 urine Investigated

London, Aug. 30.- A conmotion was caused in Anglo-Amerian circles in London yesterday by a statement which appeared in the current install ment of the "Recollections of former Ambassador Gerard, who says:
 ''I was informed by a man high in the German Foreign Office that Ger many had proposed to England to join in intervention in Mexico and forever end the Monroe Doctrine. was ~stold that England refused. Whether this proposal and refusal were in fact made could be learned from the archives of the British.Foreign Office"
 As soon as MT. Gerard's statement became known an investigation of all the files bearing on the subject was ordered. Pending the conclusion of this inquiry the Foreign Office refused to indicate in any way whether or not such proposal had been received from Germany.
 MT. Gerard'si statement caused no surprise in quarters well informed re-, garding foreign relations and having knowledge of German intrigues in American affairs in recent years. It is expected that the Gerard revela- tions ultimately will involve the dis closure of a German attempt to in- vo1ve America in trouble with Japan.
 It is likely that. the entire system of German plettfngs and intrigues will be exposed progressively as the result of an understanding. among the na- tions now fighting Germany. It is we'll understood that almost every na- tion arfayed against Germany is able to reveal that at some time it was ap- .proached by Germany with proposi- tions calculated to ernbroil it with some other nation now anti-German.
 The earlier chapters of the Gerard disclosures were regarded here as rather amazing because of their frankness and because they were ap- parently due to the initiative of the Washington government; pow, how ever, 1t Is generally believed that the Gerard exposure was authorized for the express purpose of providing an opportunity to unmask the whole op- erations of Germany's vicious diplo- macy in the years before as well as during the war
 Berlin apparently has started a systematic propaganda to offset the effects of former Ambassador Gerard's $ revelations. and the unfortunate mill tary situation on the western front upon German opinion by manufactur- ing naisrepresentations concerning the Allies. SsSs-
 The most amazing story of this character is published in the leading
 German papers of August 26 as com. ling by wireless from Spain to Berlin It says that. according to reports from l America reaching Spain, the Ansri.
 can Military Commission, which re gently conferred with the European allies, reported that Germany's posi-. i lion on all fronts was impregnable 1 and that Germany was able to provide 4 reserves enough to maintain hersei I both in a military and an economf' way for ] 5. years, as the occupied ter l ritory would easily produce the neces sary foodstuffs This situation. th' l Commission believed was decisive am l should end the war.
 l The impossible story intimated tha I the commission recommended tha l America should suggest and even de ] n1and that the Entente Powers recog I nize the situation and agree tha 1 America should initiate a hnovenen l for peace at once.