Arizona republican., 1919-08-24
WILL WITHDRAW ALL U. $. FORCES
 FROM MEXICO WITHIN 24 HOURS
BARES EXTENSIVE GERMAN PLOTS IN MEXICO AGAINST
 us. DURING WAR PERIOD
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 NEW YORK. Aug. 25.-Revelation of extensive German plots in Mexico dur ing the war, which included proposed invasion of the United States by a German Mexican army of 45,000 men at the same time that the Germans launched their last drive on the west ern front in July 1918, was made shere tonight by the National Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico, which gave out statement by Dr. P. B. Altendorff, formerly of the United States military intelligence de- partment reciting his experience as an American secret service agent in that country.
 Dr. Altendorff the son of 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.
 Big Aid to U. S.
 With pretended reluctance, but with secret joy I accepted he said. and at once found myself in a position 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 to the military intelligence department, he claims, and later was sworn in as special agent of the military intelli- gence department
 Dr. Altendorff warns the people of the United States against a, proposed German commercial conquest of Mexico.
 Within six months after the United States ratifies the treaty" he says. Germany will have complete economic control of Mexico. Within a very few years, if they are permitted to carry cut the plans they have formulated and are now executing as fast as they can, the Germans will have absolute econo- mic, political and military control of Latin America with headquarters in Mexico.7
 Trained Nucleus of Army
 Referring to the proposed invasion of the United States Dr. Altendorff sets forth that in his dual capacity as a captain in the German army and a colonel in the Mexican army he helped to train 9G0 Gerna.i reservists in Sonora, who were to form tie nucleus Of the proposed German Mexican army and that in his true character as m AnlerlCan secret serv.ce agent, he pre- vented 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."
 Delivered Notorious Spy.
 pr. Altendoff enumerating his ser- .-As
 T delivered into the hands of the United States military authorities. the German agent Lather W1tcke, alias Pablo Wabirski, the moss important individual captured during the war so far as America was concerned. Wabir- ski boasted to me that he had blown up several intuition 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 northwet,
 "Wabirshi was on his say to the United States by way of Nogales. Arizona, on another mission of murder and destruction when captured by me. On his person was found a copy of the German imperial code. Wasriski was courtmartialed and from the fact that his case is before the president for re- view is belived to have been sentenced to death.
 T also betrayed 5S other German agents and this called the military in- telligence department to Ieep effec- tive watch on them, not to mention some renegade Americans who were giving aid and comfort to the enemy"
 Was Active Throughout War.
 Other acts for which Dr. Altendorff claims credit include:
 Discovery of two German wireless stations in Mexico, capabIe of receN- ing messages from Germans, reporting the plan for the German submarine raid along the American coast in April, 1918, one month before it ac- tually took place; reporting agents sent by Germany in Mexico to poison cattle in the United States and the revelation of plot by four Germans to blow LID the hydro-eIectric plant at Niagara Falls.