Omaha daily bee., 1919-08-24
cARRAnZ|STAS ASSIST YAhkS
CONTROL PLANOF
GERMAN NATION
Warning Issued by Former
Member of u. S. Military
Intelligence Department.

New York, Aug. 23.-Revelation
of extensive German plots in Mex
ico during the war, which included
a proposed invasion of the United
States by German Mexican army
of $4,000 men at the same time that
the Germans launched their last
drive on the western front in July,
1918. was made here tonight by the
National Association for the Pro-
lection of American Rights in Mex
lco, which gave out a statement by
DR., P. B. Altendorf, formerly of the
United States Military Intelligence
department, reciting his experience
as an American secret service agent
in that country.
DR.. Allendorf, the son of Polish
banker in Cracow, Austrian Poland,
abandoned a medical course in the
University of Vienna at the outbreak
of the war and fled to Mexico, where
he was offered a position as a Ger
man spy to operate against the
United States by Kurt Jahnke, head
of the German secret service in
Mexico.
with pretended reluctance, but
with secret JOY, l accepted" he said,
and at once found myself in a posi-
ton to render valuable service to
the allies in general"
He opened communication with
the border as a volunteer worker to
the military intelligence department,
he claims, and later was sworn in as
special agent of the military in
telligence department.
DR.. Allendorf warns the people of
the United States against proposed
German commercial conquest of
Mexico.
Plan Control of Country.
within six months after the
United States ratifies the treaty. he
says, Germany will have complete
economic control of Mexico. With
in a very few years, if they are per-
mitted to carry out the plans they
have formulated and are now exc
cutting as fast as they can, the Ger
mans will have absolute economic,
political and military control of
LatinAmerica with headquarters in
Mexico.
Referring to the proposed invasion
of the United States, DR.. Allendorf
sets forth that in his dual capacity
as a captain in the German army
and colonel in the Mexican army
he helped to train 900 German re
servists in Sonora, who were to form
the nucleus of the proposed German
Mexican army and that in his true
character as all American secret
service agent. he prevented the raid
from being carried out
This ambitious scheme" he said
was financed by Won Eckhardt
German ambassador to Mexico)
and was undertaken with the CO.
operation of Carranza.
Enumerates Services.
DR.. A1lendoff, enumerating his
services i'll Mexico, says in Fart:
Il delivered into the hands of the
United States military authorities
the German agent, Luther Witcke.
alias Pablo Wabirski, the most i'm
portant individual capture of the
war, so far as America was CON-
cerned. Wabirski boasted to me that
he had blown up several munition
plants and stores of explosives, in
cluding the Black Tom explosion in
New York; blew up some ships and
caused disastrous fires in the forests
of the Pacific northwest.
"Wabirski was on his way to the
United States by way of Nogales.
Ariz., on another mission Of murder
and destruction when captured by
me. On his person was found a
copy of the German imperial code.
Wabirski was court-martialed and
from the fact that has case is be-
fore the president for review is be-
ieved to have been sentenced to
death
II also betrayed 5S other German
agents and thus enabled the military
intelligence department to keep ef-
fective watch on them, not to men
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