The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-28

out the plans they have formulated and
are now executing as rapidly as they can,
the Germans will have absolute economic,
political and military control of Latin
America with headquarters in Mexico"
Referring to the proposed invasion of
the United States, Dr. Altendorf sets
forth that in his dual capacity as cap
tain in the German army and colonel
in the Mexican army, he helped train 900
German reservists in Sonora who were
to form the nucleus of the proposed Ger
man-Mexican army and that in his true
character as an American secret service
agent he prevented the raid from being
carrled out. f as 81 5.ss u.
. fsgfhisi ambitious. scheme he says, sfwas
financed by Won Eekhardtf German min
ister to Mexicol and was undertaken with
the cooperation of Carranza''1
Dr. Altendorf, enumerating his services
in Mexico, says in part: Il delivered into
the hands of the United States military
authorities the German agent, Lathar
Witkeen, alias Pablo Wabirski, the most
important individual capture of the war
so far as America is concerned Wabrski
boosted to me that he had blown up sew
eral plants and stores of explosives, in
Guiding the Black Tom explosion in New
York; blew up some ships and caused dis
astrous fires in the forests of the Pacific
Northwest
"Wabirski was on his way to the Unit
ed States by way of Nogales, Ariz, on an
other mission of murder and destruction
when captured with me. On his person
was found a copy of the German imperial
code, and this is understood to be the
first time that the code came into the
possession of the American government
Wabirski was court martialed and from
the fact that his case is before the Presi-
dent for review is believed to have been
sentenced to death, the only German spy
to receive such sentence in the United
States
Il also betrayed IS other German agents
and thus enabled the military intelligence
department to keep effective watch on
them, not to mention some renegade
Americans who were giving aid and com
fort to the enemy.
Other acts for which DR. Altendorf
claims credit include: Discovery of two
German wireless stations in Mexico, ca
pable of receiving messages from that
country; reporting the plan for the Ger
man submarine raid along the American
coast in April, 1918, one month before it
actually took place; reporting agents sent
by Germans in Mexico to poison cattle
in the United States and the revelation
of plot by four Germans to blow up the
hydroelectric plant at Niagara Falls.
Prominent Mexican officials are alleged
by DIR. Altendorf to have been on the
pay roll of the German embassy He
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graph, received salary of 5000 a month
from Won Eckhardt. His brother, a SEN
ator with influence, received the same
salary. A third brother, who held a posi-
ton in the postoffice, also received 5000
month for opening and reading private
letters and passing the information along
to the Germans"
DIR. Altendorf states that he personally
in November, 1917, carried a request from
Governor Gales of Sonora to Rademacher,
ehe German consul at Guaymas, for $780,
900, saw the money put in bag and car
ried the bag, accompanied by Rademach-
er, to Gales.
Continuing, the statement says: Il
was able to discover that Won Eckhardt
has guaranteed to Carranza an abundance
of capital to turn Mexico into an indus
trial country. In fact, Won Eckhardt
went to Germany last April for the ex-
press purpose of financing German corp
ofations and perfecting other arrange
ments for building great mechanical
plants, textile factories, tanneries and
all the other industries necessary to make
Mexico independent of the United States
and Europe.
CAS- soon as the treaty is ratified there
will be hegira of quarter of a million
Germans from the United States, who
sill take with them to Mexico $4,000 DOC
capital There are already 10000 Ger
mans in Mexico and German immigration
on a large scale will soon turn the coun.
try into a German colony.
''The activity of Carranza in driving
Americans out and confscating their prop
erty is explained by the fact that Ger
mans with plenty of money stand ready
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