The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-09-05
PLOT With
MEXICO TO BEAT U. s.
Carranza Not Neutral During War,
But an Enemy of Allies-Spy
Bares Ambitious Plan.


of extensive German plots in Mexico
during the war, which included a pro-
posed invasion of the United States
by a German-Mexican army of $4,000
men, at the same time that the Ger
mans launched their last drive on the
western front in July, 1918, was made
here Saturday night by the National
Association for the Protection of
American rights in Mexico, which gave
out a statement by DR.. D. P. Alien
dorf, formerly of the United States
military intelligence department, re-
citing his experience as an American
secret service agent in that country.
DR.. Altendorf, 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 Ger
man spy to operate against the Unit
ed States by Kurt Jahnka, head of
the German secret service in Mexico.
"With pretended reluctance, but
with secret joy, I accepted" he said,
'and at once found myself in a posi-
ton to render valuable service to the
allies in general and to the United
States in particular"
He opened communication with the
border as a volunteer worker Of 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 it has
investigated his claims and that Brig
adler General Marlborough Churchill,
head of the military intelligence de-
partment, "spoke in terms Of the high
est praise of the zeal and trustworth-
mess of DR.. Altendorf and the great
value of the services he rendered.
In addition to explaining his activ-
tiles in Mexico DR.. Altendorf warns
the people of the United States against
a proposed German commercial con
quest OF Mexico.
":Within six months after the Unit
ed States r~atifies the treaty of peace"
he says, Germany will have complete
economic control of Mexico. Within
a very few years, if they are permit
ted to carry out the plans they have
formulated and are now executing
as fast 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 a captain in the German army and
a colonel in the Mexican army he help
ed to train 900 German reservists in
Sonora, who were to form the nu-
cleus of the proposed German-Mexican
army, and that in his true character he
prevented the raid from being carried
out.
"This ambitious scheme" he said,
"was financed by Won Eckhardt Ger
man ambassador to Mexico) and was
undertaken with the cooperation of
Carranza."
DR.. Altendorf, enumerating his ser
vices in Mexico, says in part:
ri delivered into the hands Of Unit
ed States military authorities the Ger
man agent, Lathar Witcke, alias Pam
bio Wabriski, the most important in
dividual capture of the war so far
as America was concerned. Wabris-
XII 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 in the forests of the Pacific
northwest.
"Wabriski 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 were found a copy OF
the German imperial code, and this
is understood to be the first time
that code came into possession of the
American government. Wabriski was
court-martialed and from the fact that
his ease is before the president fol
review he is believed to have been sen
fenced to death, the only German spy
to receive such a sentence in the
, United States.
~ also betrayed SO other German
agents and thus enabled the militar.
intelligencec department to keep eff
fective watch on them, not to mention
. some renegade Americans who wer'
. giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Other acts for which DR.. Altendor
claims credit include: Discovery o
5 two German wireless stations in Mex
leo, capable of receiving message
from the German submarine raj,
along the Atlantic coast in April
1918, one month before it actual,
!, took place; reporting agents sent b,
l Germans in Mexico to poison cattl
E in the United States and the revela
f ton of a plot by four Germans to bio,
up the hydro electric plant at Mag