Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-31
SPY'S STORY OF.
TEUTON-MExICAN
TREATY IS DENIED
German Minister Says No
Engagements or Promises
Exist Between Huns and
Carranza.
BY KARL Won WIEGAND
Universal Service Staff Correspon
dent

Universal Service Staff Correspon-
dent
Berlin, Aug. 50--"No engagements
or promises, direct, indirect, express
I'd. or implied. exist between the
German government and Mexico"
This statement was made to me
! by Hermann Mueller. the German
foreign minister, in commenting on
recent New York dispatches telling
aaof revelations" by a certain Alien
sdorf to the effect that the German
government was still ready to keep
the promise given to Carranza by
Won Echart, the former German
minister to Mexico.
an the interest OF rebuilding nor
NAL relations between the United
! States and Germany" said Minister
Mueller. II can declare most EN-
phatically that no promise or en-
: sagement of any kind exists be-
tween the two governments. The
alleged revelations by one Altendorf
at New York are part of a <syste-
matte propaganda to keep s,up ami
mostly against the German people
by trying to keep alive the suspicion
of German intentions.
Statement Baseless
1.-THE statements of Altendorf, an
Austrian physician who formerly
lived in Mexico, are, am informed,
absolutely baseless. Closer exami-
nation shows what they are worth.
He boasts of having personally
trained nine hundred German re-
servists in Mexico for a military ex-
3pedition against the United States.
furthermore, he states that 100000
Germans are standing ready in that
country, presumably for the same
purpose, and that numerous emf
grants focking to Mexico would
ssoon transform that country into a
German colony.
"As matter of fact, the total
number of German residents within
1.-THE entire republic of Mexico did not
sexceed 1000 before the war and, &C
fcording to reliable information, Ger
man immigration into that country
Eduring the war amounted to not
more than 200 or 800 persons.
Pertinent Question
1T would be proper question to
ask Herr Altendorf about the pre-
else localities where the alleged
German troops were trained and
Guartered, and by whom they were
armed and fed" s..
Asked about the alleged discovery
of German conspiracy to blow up
afhe electric plant at Niagara Falls.
Herr Mueller said:
v '.'The complete absence of details
!, stimulates the theo5y lthat as child
Altendorf had sSs fmagination.".
The minis'cl pointed out that Al
stendorf's story that he was obliged
20 leave Mexico because a price OF
$4,000 had been placed on his head
ashere, lacked any indication as to
whether the sum offered would have
been paid by the Mexican govern
5nent or by whom else.
as His disingenous tale that Ger
anlans in Mexico intended to murder
iisx-Ambassador Gerard" said Muel-
9ter, on the latter's voyage from Ber-
Elm to Washington lacks not only
shc veriest shred Of evidence, but
also prima facie proof that the Ger
mans in Mexico really had any in
ierest in committing foul deed.
Il Were Fabrications.
Touching upon reports concern
ing secret German munition fac
tories in Mexico, contained in Alien
DORIS story and the tale Of German
American army of $4,000 alleged to
have been under orders to attack the
Mexican border simultaneously with
the German spring offensive in 1913,
the forign minister declared these
statements belonged to "the same
category of baseless fabrieations
diligently spread as anti-German
I propaganda. He continued:
ut is a we'll known fact that
there is only one munitions factory
in Mexico, that one being the prop
erty of the Mexican government en-
ploying exclusively Mexicana
"As for the alleged German-Amer-
lean army, it is malicious invention.
j Doubtless the military attache OF
the American embassy in Mexico
City as we'll as the American war
department at Washington are per-
fectly we'll aware of the absurdity
and baselessness of these rumors
Of alleged German military activi-
ty in Mexico, past and present"
Z In conclusion the foreign minister
said:
I'm the reconstruction and the
return of a stage of peace which
the entire world longs for, I should
sincerely welcome If the press
would use a greater measure Of dis
'.cernment in the circulation OF un-
authenticated stories invented for
the sole purpose Of keeping up sus-
picion and animosity against the
German people"
Several Hundred Attend