The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-08-26
In Cooperation With Mexico
$4,000 Troops We're to Come
With Last Western Drive.
A REVELATION OF PLOTS
National Association for Protec-
ton of American Rights Gives
Out Some Interesting State
mentS.

New York, Aug. 25.-Revelation
of extensive German plots in Mexico
during the war which included a pro-
posed invasion of the United States
by German-Mexican army of 45,OO(
men at the same time that the Ger
mans launched their last drive on the
western front in July, 1918, was
made here by the National Associa
tion for the Protection of American
Rights in Mexico, which gave out a
statement by DR.. p. b. Allendore, for
merly of the United States military
intelligence department, reciting his
experience as an American secret SER
vice agent in that country.
DR.. Allendorf, the son Of a 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 German
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 services to the
allies in general and to the United
States In particular"
He opened communication with the
border as a volunteer worker to the
military intelligence department, he
| claims, and was later sworn in as a
special agent of the military intelli-
gence department. The association
states that 1t has investigated his
claims and that Brigadier General
Marlborough Churchill. the head of
the military intelligence department,
spoke In terms of the highest praise
| of the zeal and trustworthiness of DIR.
Allendorf and the great value OF the
services he rendered. In addition to
explaining his activities in Mexico
DR.. Allendorf warns the people of the
United States against proposed Ger
man commercial conquest of Mexico.
within six months after the
United States ratifies the treaty of
peace" he says, Germany will have
complete economic control of Mexico
Within very few years. If they are
permitted to carry out the plans they
have formulated and are now execut-
ing as rapidly as they can. the Ger
mans Will have absolute economic, DO
littcal and military control of Latin
America with headquarters in Mex
ico."
Referring to the proposed invasion
OF the United States, DR.. Allendorf
sets forth that in his dual capacity as
captain in the German army and a
colonel in the Mexican army he
helped train 100 German reservists in
Sonora, who were to form the nucleus
OF the proposed German-Mexican
army and that in his true character
as an American secret service agent
he prevented the raid from being car
ried out.
This scheme" he says, was
financed by Won Eckhardt German
ambassador to Mexico) and was un-
dertaken with the cooperation of
CarranZa"
DR.. Allendorf, enumerating his
services in Mexico, said in part:
II delivered into the hands of the
United States military authorities the
German agent, Iathar Witcke, alias
Pablo Wabirski. the most important
individual capture OF the war so far
as America was concerned Wabirski
boasted to me that he had blown up
several munitions plants and stores
OF explosives. including the Black
Tom explosion in New York; blew up
some ships and caused disastrous fires
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 with
me. On his person was found a copy
OF the German imperial code. and this
Is understood to be the first time that
code came into the possession of the
American government. Wabirski
was court-martialed and from the
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