Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-01
BY CAPTAIN HORST Won DER eoLTz

the Wilhelmstrasse and the German
! diplomatic corps.
For ten years, / was active with the
German secret service-that Is for 10
years not counting the two spent in
jail as result of that activity in the
interests of the Fatherland. Let me
repeat one thing positively. as a re-
suit of these years of experience.
Germany makes mistakes but she
does not jump at conclusions, and
when she considers the United States
on the brink of the conflict, it Is time
for the people of the United States
to wake up, because it is pretty safe
to say that they ARE on the brink of
the conflict.
FORCED ENGLAND TO FIGHT.
When the great war started Ger
many had laid the groundwork of her
plans for dealing with the United
States and she had laid this ground
work in Mexico without qualms of
conscience and without regard for the
Monroe Doctrine, just as she marched
!! through Belgium without regard to
treaties, and really TO FORCE ENG
LAND INTO THE WAR.
Germany began to get a hold on
Mexico In the last days of the presi-
dency OF Porfirio Diaz, with whom she
had negotiations and whose proposed
secret treaty with Japan she fostered
with marvellous finesse. Many German
merchants had gone into Mexico, and
they laid the foundations for the in
triguing engaging largely in the hard
I ~ II
businesses. They and the 'consuls are
the real power in Mexico, Central and
South America today. The ambass-
adors know little of the inside work.
ings OF the international relations be-
tween Germany and these states. The
kaiser depends upon the stronger
forces which come into direct contact
and are constantly advancing the in
terests of the Fatherland
These Germans in Mexico are not
like the immigrants who have made
their homes ir the United States. In
Mexico, The Germans do not renounce
their citizenship. They are there only
to make money and usually as the
managers and employees of branches of
commercial houses with home offices
in Germany.
personally know that today Ger
many controls the Carranza govern
ment through his closest advisers, and
IS using Mexico as the point of the
wedge, the wings being formed by the
rest OF Central and South America.
Here Is food for though in connection
with President Wilson's efforts to get
the Colombian treaty through con-
gress. The American state department
knows things which are not given to
the public-never forget that
VILLA HATES GERMANS,
The one man in Mexico who has not
been touched by Germany is Panoho
Villa. That is because Germany can
not get within arms length Of him.
/ was with the Army of the North
in Mexico as an officer In the federal
forces from December, 1918, until the
outbreak of the European war, doing
the direction of my Fatherland. When
| was ordered to leave Mexico by my
government at the outbreak of hostil-
tiles, General Raoul Madero, on whose
staff was serving as a major, said:
Let all Europe go to hell and you
stay here"
i couldn't take his advice SO I re-
ported to Captain Won Papen, the Ger
man military attache at Washington.
But was in Mexico long cough to
learn that Villa was never touched by
German gold. He is an Immensely
proud man and he hated the Germans
because they had given aid to an enc
my. Pascual Orozco, the hated Red
Flasger." When Pancho took Chi
huahua last fall, a German attempted
to save the lives Of some Chinese"
whom Villa was having shot. 1 happen
to know that most of these Chinese"
whom Villa has been executing In
Mexico are really Japanese In disguise,
but of this matter later.
Villas reply to the German agent in
this case was:
Tell your government that i take
my orders from the kaiser up-not
from the kaiser down"
This statement was brought to me
first hand by German merchant,
Joseph Meyer. OF Chihuahua, with
whom was acquainted in Mexico and