The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-24
REVELATIONS SHOW
 INVASION OF J. s. . BY ROCHE MEXICAN ARMY WASPLANNED
Association for Preserva- ton of American Rights in Mexico Makes Startling
 Disclosures of Intrigue
 South of the Border
sy Associated Pro.

elation of extensive German plots in Mexico during the war. which included a proposed ln- vasion of the United States by a German-Mexican army of 45,000 men, at the same time the Germans launched their last drive on the western front | in. July, 1918, was made here tonight by the National Assocl-
 ation for the Protection of
 American Rights in Mexico, which gave out a statement by Dr. P. B. Altendorf, formerly of the. United States military 1 intelligence department, recit- | ing his experience as an Amer lican secret service agent in that country.
 I pr. Altendorf, the son of Polish banker in Cracow, Austrian Poland abandoned a medical course in the UniT lversitv of Vienna at the outbreak of the Iwar and fled to Mexico, where ne was ioffered position as a German spy to loperate against the United states ps kurt Jahnke head of the German secret service in Mexico.
 ACCEPTS HUN OFFER
 with pretended reluctance but witn secret ioy | accepted he said, and al Eonce found myself in d positios to ren- tder valuable service to the allles III general and to the United states in par ticular" "a lhorder as a volunteer worker to the military intelligence departmenfs E Iclaims and was later sworn in sas 4 special agent Of the military lngssN7 gence department.
 The association states that It mas lii- lvestigated his claims and that Bris 7 lCen. Marlborough Churchill, the hedu of the military intelligence department. smoke in terms of the highest praise of the zeal and trustworthiness Of pr. lAltendorf. and the great value of the iservices he rendered.
 In addition to explaining his activi- ties in Mexico, Dr. Altendorf warns the people against proposed German com mercial conquest Of Mexico
 within six months after the United States ratfies the treaty of peace, he says Germany will have complete economical control of Mexico. Within very few years. If they are permitted to carry out the plans they have for mulated and are now executing as rap idly as they can, the Germans VIII have absolute economic, political and military control of Latin America with , headquarters in Mexico"
 HELPED TRAIN HUNS Referring to the proposed invasion of the United States. pr. Altendorf sets forth that in his dual capacity as captain in the German army and a col in 10 n 10 hptn . train 900 German reservists In Sonora who were to form the nucleus of the proposed German Mexican army, and that in his true character as an Ameri- can secret service agent. he prevented the raid from being carried out. This ambitious scheme he said, was financed by Won Eckhardt German ann bassador to Mexco) and was undertaken with the cooperation of Carranza." } Dr. Altendorf. enumerating his services , in Mexico says in part:
 "I delivered into the hands of the
 United States military authorities the German agent Iathar Witcke, alias ? Pablo Wabirski, the most important fn- divdual capture of the war so far as l America was concerned Wabrski boast
 ed to me that he had blown up several lmunition 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 Pa cific northwest.
 HAD GERMAN CODE
 "Wabirski was on his way to the .. United States by way of Nogales, Ariz. on another mission of murder and de-
 struction when captured with me On lis person was found copy of the Ger man imperial code and this is under stood to be the first time that code came into the possession of the American gov ernment Wabirski was courtmartaled lar fao bat pae is bof the President for review is believed to have been sentenced to death, the only German spy to receive such sentence in the United States.
 "I also betrayed 5S other German agents, and thus enabled the military in telligence department to keep effective watch on them, not to mention sorne rem egade Americans who were giving aid and comfort to the enemy
 Other acts for which Dr. Altendorf claims credit include
 Discovery of two German wireless sta tions in Mexico capable of receiving mes sages from that country; reporting the plan for the German submarine raid along the American coast in April 1918, lone month before it actually took place; reporting agents sent by Germans in Mexico to poison cattle in the United States and the revelation of a plot by 1 four Germans to blow up the hydro- electric plant at Niagara Falls
 COMMERCIAL PLANS Calling attention to German conmer- ciai plans in. Mexico, Dr. Atendorf re- ports that "the first attempt to carry ou: an ambitious German scheme for the conquest and ultimate military donina- . it,on of Mex5co was plan originated by ithe cer-rsa fa5eneeue-. v-ith active aid 1 Of Governor Gales. to build cement o:sIst sssta ! sz,sS.-.,y os s-un assS.ss a :. cont. at Ies1nossluo. Sonora , T The foundations were conpleted. he : adds. and materials for the super- structure were on the ground in July. , IlalI when 1 reported the scheme in tirne to stop 1t and the factory had to - l IaSandoned until after the peace treaty had been signed. This factory was m , furnish the cement for rebuilding piers
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