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THURSDAY, MARCH 1. L917
ONE CENT
In Now
inrk ? It?
Break with U. S. a Moral
Disaster for Germany
How the News of It Stirred Non-Teutonic
Europe, Especially the Kench
fo Them It Seemed Another Verdun Lloyd
Grorge and Briand i.xpect ! his Country
to Take Part in the War
^imnnds returned yrstr-dai/ on ihr Finland. He has
? i m the other tide, going ?bout in Framce and
m rditoriml erron?. H< discussed the war with Ihr
md soldiers responsible for its conduct. II> feli it
lus and tommies in the trenches. IIr lived i
pie of both countries, f?e ?m* at Verdun again. II>
???? ?n Pari? trhen Ihe Germane returned ihr frightful use of
fa ( boat. Ilr cam, hack, of < "ursr. through thr ?rrv war zone,
\4 safe if the Germamt can help it. Thjaisthe
a feries of articles to appear as a result of his joumeu
Bj TRANK H. SIM?NOS
?It iii the mo - '"';,t tmn*
for the Allied cau-c unce Verdun."
These words of Joseph Reil *
?n and pub
?n the morninf when IHms first knew
thai the United Statt? had severed
??tic relations with Germany
,re a fair index of the French view
.n action.
For France the action of the !
unit na. but
complef vindication of the universal
French view that the var was one
between barbar am and civilisation;
?id all Franc? M* that lhe Iast of
the great nations o? the world had
v Ml its ^eal of disapproval and
condemnation upon German mili?
tar ??
The tear? ' tates
French or British
opinion M k> peace. The decision
on this point had aln Bade.
It had been reached before Mr. Wil
ace gesture. In
both I shall endeavor to
point out in subsequent ar
there had beer, a careful taking of
stock week) before the President
te. Both nations had
?acarare and of '
their future, and both had dc
that there could be no peace without
victory, a ? no life, <-ither for them?
selves or for the civilization which
they believed ir. ? rmany had
been defeated.
Precede?-! ?ifrman Pearr Proposal
This <i<- preceded the
?1 that also
M deaf ears. It awaker ?
response in n the head |
of Dm ! rer.'h and the
British. Pr?t .< ?. ? '.??
quent - - re Fi '-nch-!
~" ?
. - more
i they hurl r both
'-hey wei it adpeal.
Oc the other 1 ...
matic relations
? rrnous. It {rave the
that moral impetus
whic ftp pealed to1
their '
n*w bt the justic
cour*?- i,! indors'
?lidl nation of
ae? . ?
?l eon ver
Id'. - '? possible
to ev ?'? ? of the
'oat in French
? forgottoi '
fort
?aaj of war af ?' this
ftta -phere
' f pea | rous at the mo
r<*T!t, but not irithout future peril,
bad ' omain
bjttl
TV '
^-?1. All Pai
? was a Sttl
be f < w
re. Among
? rsa iceeptad as the ?
?ato i BM to be
prtpn refi
?ent ?
I
ViwOtmtlem for P.ntrnt*
, ? ' was
*he aenae of having found a eaas<
;rn Of 'he
eae ;??- All
*r?b* r, that the
r.r*>
'*naa r/f w.\-a<
'** nation who?: eriOM af
?Mar rsonrrono
2JJ*"". iriiND THMTSI
humanity arc written ai! over N'ori
era Prance and arc in the mir
nrcl lTearts of all Frenchmen. Tr
the United Sut?'.- should finally lia
rccopnized the brand of fain on t
German forehead?this was a thi
that meant more to the Frenchm
than it i? possible to indicate,
And all this was the more impri
sive because it had so swiftly f
?e talk of the Pic
dent. This talk no Frenchm;
could or can understand, for it mea
for them goinc back to the old sla
i r>. to the military system that G?
many had fastened upon Kurope.
meant negotiating with the unpu
i?hed murderers of French civiliai
with the men and the system th
had turned Northern France into
' and spared neither age n
It meant that France must e
dure the Ion of a million of b
without even the reward th
their sacrifices was mean: to have
the ending of the \,ng nightma
ad prevailed rince Sedan.
A Day of Inspiration
I thx<:. . o ar ut I (ence ?? CO!
cerned, that the first Sunday in Fe
ruary will remain a memorable an
and that the cost to Germany
in treasure, consequent to th<
destruction of all peace talk, of a
thought of peace in advance of lil
eration and victory for France, wi
outweiph any injury Germany wi
be able to inflict upon the Unit?
S,t?tes in war.
The effect of ?v President's a<
tion in Great Britain was far le;
immediate and, I think, far le
viderable. Like, th'' French, th
British have given emptin
to understand Mr. Wilson'.- policy.
think there is no question so fri
..?. American i
Kurope as that which seeks an e>
planation of the Pr< p li'-y
nor is there any question which s
WtT for American- throat
It was the conviction of the mas
of the British public that th*
injr of diplomatic relations was bu
? r, toward war. Hut would th
Unit? B the next :-tep
Would the President def<
can lives with American arms, 0
would be pause, having severed r?'
lations? Would th" United State
the war a^ an ally <-f the na
united againsl tiermanv o
a lone hand?
I lo\d (?eorjfe Sees I . S. in War
Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Bfin
r, with whom 1 talked just. befor<
I sailed, was convinced that Americt
was bound to enter. Me spoke with
reul enthusiasm of the influence
that America would exert in th(
?
I tlement was to be mad".
I do not think the major.'
-hare
this view. I do not think that there
?i England
for American intervention as an ally.
? r, I think that the n I
thoughtful Englishmen feel and felt
that the break in diplomatic rela
w.th Germany was ? good
thing, bocanas it probably put ? term
?man Intrigue bl Am? rica
that i?, to the intrigue which has
ral times threatened to ii
difficulties with Great Brita n
a.v! bet AMOS ?'"I make ?? in fact
an ally of Gcnr. \
Among the officer in the British
? ? l found a consider
able belief that America would corn?
ir. But the fir t question that eras
ir Douglas Halg, by
? Henry Rawlmeon, by General
Home, indeed by ?n the often
"Will America com
Ql the other bar.
pfith whom I risHed the Brit?
Front, ?H? greeted with the
Continued on Page 3, Col. 4
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Congress
Faces War
Demanc
Exposure of Gem?an Pic
Against U. S. Expected
to Arouse Nation
President's Patience
Apparently at an En<
Certain to Get All Authorit
He Seeks?Carranza Sent
Berlin Letter to Lansing
Washington, Feb. 28. The fin
stop by the Administration in ahar
doning it,; two-yean-long policy c
patience toward German insults nn
aggression was .seen herr to-night i
the fact that the news of one Gel
man intrigue against the Unite
State.s?that to incite Mexico an
1 Japan to war against us?was pul
I Habed.
It is not thought possible tl
highly confidential information roul
have found its way into print b
accident, nor that any one WOUl
have made public facts so inflamma
tory unless he knew that the re
suits sure to follow were desired i
: the highest quarters.
The public sentiment BlOUSCd 1'
the revelations v. ?11 demand actior
and the very fact that the revela
tions were made il taken as an indi
; cation that the Administration i
prepared to act.
Ha, Ha Iked lcj?is!al;on
? over two years the Adminii
tration has ben: every effort to caln
soothe American opinion. Th<
extent to which it has succeeded ha
been the chief obstacle in the way o
preparedness legislation, both in th<
months past and in the last few days
ame evident that th<
pould no longer bo avoided.
To-day's revelation is not soothing
1: will undo in a few hours all tha'
hs gone before, And the fact tha:
it has been made if interpreted ai
more than a hint that the time ha
c me when the President wants be
hind him a nation, not. calm nor lonj
OUSed, awakened urn
its whole power in it'
own defence.
See Nation NroiiM'd
Long delay semi, impossible af
ter this disclosure, (very man whr
knows the tamper of the Auk
people believed to nifht. The re
sentment which will be arov ed, to
? ?? with the bringing home tc
American of : he fac? that the
power which preci]
the world war and outraged Bel?
gium is actually threatening us. ii
believed certain to arouse the nation
to a pitch it has not. known since
the Lusitania was sunk.
With BUch a spirit in the land, it
lu ved thai then- will be a
man ?ho will dare set himself
again-; any measure the President
may | even the
aille to .heck the
.. ? and how fast the
new policy will take the country
? predict, but men who to?
day doubled thai there would even
be ? formal declaration of ? "state
of war" with Germany to-night be?
lieve that the Stars i pes may
yet be seen on the battlefield-- of
I- landers.
National I ri?js Madf Clear
The ?hole German crisii
on a new bash by to-nigfat'i revela
? the country
reali,. I ?emendo .
ted hen. From now
0 American can claim that hi
own inte i
There can be no more talk that the
Middle Weal or the South or any
other part of the country ha.- riot
been ? : by Germany. It has
: to be a maritime crisis and
?me ? national one.
There v\;i- inCTeduloUl .nna/eriient,
quickly followed by indications of I
quick change of entunen! from mild
bo suspicious belligerency in
< ongret ? at midnight, when the Br I
of the German plot jpol around.
The Senator- in touch with for
eign relations and leader1-- on both
-ides m the House predicted that
when one?, the American people be?
?..ware of the intentions of Gei
to attack the United Ste
roar would jro up that would be
heard even in I ?ongrass,
There Will be DO further holding
heel nos . Il ? as aid by man)
to night, on giving the Pn
the ? ut h* ni y he ask \
? ii of wai will be 11
ble before ihr ? sesi?n of Conj
,rni if the Pit lidenl
'[Im re was i halief among well in
i men to night thai the P
dent may be on the point of again
going b?r(P!<- i ongresa, perhap to
morrow or Friday, to :t-k for further
authority in the use of the military
power cf the government a^i
' -errnany.
Robert Lansing, Secretary of
. and Frank L Folk, <oun?el
lor of the State I>"partmcnt, were
reached bite to-night on the t* le
phone, but declined to say i further
word about the Zimmermann-Beni
storff dispatch.
It i1- not pOl lible to find out to
nipht how long th" government of
? I ' United StaU has bei n in pos
-< ?- ?on of th? news of the German*
an plot.
Member . of the Senate irho are
best informell on foreign relations
said to-night that an slliance headed
bj Germany agaii I th" united
states would not command Japanese
support at this stjipp of the war.
The Japanese Ambassador, Aimaro
called at the State department
t?. day.
Carran/.a Ktpotird Plot
?? Germai) instruction, it ?| under?
stood, mmc t.> the Stat" Itcparttnrn'
from General* errante, probably t]
Ambassador I If'i'nti, who .irrr
!iu'" On this
understanding i rr'.v lisrnt is thrown on
Carraasa'i ?inch had ap
? -, ) ? trai rail ted to
the i sited States and all other neutral
Sewers a note proposing to stop shlp
of luppli< ? to heiligem I
garde?) si inspirad in t:
If i* ?i tiuc, however, that
?
nun pins
to Mexico to attack the '
pears 'hat the peaee-embergo pro
irai intended a* a ?op to (?cr
many and t i the pi" German element
in .'il.'xico. lather thai, .is at
terupt to fUli -use.
-toift's instructions to t ho
minister in Mi Cit raw undouht
?
onld have r'
through the Mexii
La Follette Forces
Senate to Postpone
Armament Bill
Filibuster Delays Vote Until
To-morrow; $350,000,000
Revenue Bill Passed
Washington, Marin t. Sens i i
. '? r a-.ih' 1 til i bus?
ter against ths strality bil?
when the Senate reconvened at 12:15
o'clock thil morning, after a recess of
ten minutes following pnasaga of ths
II, which went through by
a ?trii 17 1 a IS.
Promt pi objection to the t)ill
from Senator I.a Pollette, ?hu
ed upi'H con anting time rending ?he
journal of over ths
rigorou objection ot Sanatora Kail
and Po Lepa
Finally the Wisconsin Si
?nduced t'i withdraw nil ol
loncV BO at
?? bill before to-mor>
'A hen Democrat ?c leaden i
ted the
bill with n favorable report, and Sen
? that it lay over until
: row.
I until 1? o'clock
I
i.a\ni appii ' ' hill.
The
$350,000,000 by taxi
?
began
a1 B o'clock Amendmei amend
tha Republicana wai
to re'- mate
? eat ed to thi ' range ipi
? i up behind
the Wisconsin Senator. Kons of the
amendments was adopted
Sharp Demand Reply
Of U. S. to German
Detention of Consuls
Berlin Told Washington Can't
Aid German Officials Out?
side of This Country
VI aahingten, I ? - mod
<<f four An
detained II Germai ???lina
? ' nment to
rough
BToy.
? :i I mad.- in a eom
a note n
from Germany eariiei in the dsy in
which ? mm meed thai ths
- un officiais v ould l"
m Europa
? liad been offl
? ned ' hat I ? onsnli
in this country ordered to Smith and
?
i roce* d.
?
German Ship Reported
Off Western Mexico
U. S. Officials Hear She May
Be Tender to U-Boats
Sun Diego, Cal., Peb, H fresh re?
ports that s German iteamer ha plied
along ' ? t i oael of Mexico and
I entrai Ami pur
p".i collecting fuel and stores for
(?arman ubmanne* or ,i Germas
raidei ed here to-day by the
? il nu'h'.r it ics.
The authoritiei also learned that a
powerful arireloai station, the open
I whirl; transmit mi < i^ in th#>
slew, methodical manner tvpn-ai ?
in ri*v?l radio servi' e, lia
in servie?- at a point miles
el l 'ittir Baj . Lowe i < Californie
German ?(
ted >?? Magdalena Baj
g of the (?erman n? .. >.n Ds
16 snd Pahranr] I On r*oh
raarj M ih? aras reported to have
coaled and provisioned m the harbor
of Aeapnlee, flj mr. ihr Honduras
DAM?! i ? i mm H STOMACH MOM TO]
DrtaS l)r Hruth ? Kumys??Adv?.
Germany Asks Mexico
I To Seek Alliance with
; Japan for War on U. S.
Message from Foreign Secretary Zimmermann to Carranza
Reveals Astounding Plot to Attack from Border if This
Nation Should Go to War with Teutons; Texas, New
Mexico and Arizona Promised as Reward
Tokio Called Upon to Desert Allies and Form Alliance with Central Powers
?Bernstorff Got Instructions from Berlin on January 19 and Sent Them
to Minister von Eckhardt?Money and Share in "Victorious Peace"
Pledged to Carranza, Together with "Lost Territory,,
Washington, Feb. 28.?The Associated Press ii enabta
revet] thai Germany, in planning unrestricted submarine n
fare and counting its consequences, proposed an alliance v\
Mexico and Japan to make war on the United States, if I
country should not remain neutral. Japan, through Moxi
mediation, was to be urged to abandon her allies and join
the attack on the United States.
% Mexico, for lift ri ward, was to receive general linaw
support from Germany, reconquer Texas. New Mexico and i
zona?lost provinces?and share in the victorious peace tei
Germany contemplated.
Details were left to German Minister von Kckhardt
Mexico City, who by instructions signed by German Fore
Minister Zimmermann at Berlin on January 19, 1917, was
rected to propose the alliance with Mexico to General Carrai
and suggest that Mexico seek to brine Japan into the plot.
These instructions were transmitted to von Eckh?
through Count von Bernstoff, tonner German Ambassador he
now on his way home to (iermany under a sate conduct obtait
from his (tiennes by the country against which he was plotti
war. Germany pictured to Mexico by broad intimation El
'and and the Entente Allies defeated, (iermany and her all
triumphant and in world domination by the instrument of i
restricted submarine warfare.
ZIMMERMANN'S INSTRUCTIONS
A copy of Zimmermann's instructions to von Eckhari
sen! through von BernstorflT, is in possession of the Unit
States Government. It is as follows:
Berlin. January 19. 1917.
On the 1st of February we intend to begin submarine
are unrestricted. In spite of this, it is our intention to
endeavor to keep neutral the United States of America.
If this attempt is not successful, we propose an alliance
on the following hasis with Mexico: That we shall make war
together and together make peace. We shall give general
financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to re
COnqaer the lost territory in New Mexico. Texas and Ari?
zona. The details are left to you for settlement.
You are instructed to inform the President of Mexico
(.f the above in the greatest confidence as soon as it is
certain that there will be an outbreak of war with the
United States, ami suyqest that the President of Mexico,
on his own initiative, should communicate with Japan sug?
gesting adherence at once to this plan; at the same time,
off? r to mediate between (iermany and Japan.
Please call to the attention of the President of Mexico
that the employment of ruthless submarine warfare now
promises to compel England to make peace in a few months.
(Signed) ZIMMERMANN.
UNITED STATES KEPT DOCUMENT SECRET
This document has been in the hands of the governmen
. ince President Wilson broke off diplomatic relations with Ger
many. It has been kept secret, while the President has beei
asking Congress for full authority to deal with (Iermany. am
while Congress has been hesitating.
It was in the President's hands while Chancellor von Beth
tnann-Hollweg v.as declaring that the United States had place'
an interpretation on the submarine declaration "never intendec
by (iermany" and that (iermany had promoted and honor?e
friendly relations with the United States "as an heirloom fron
Frederick the Great."
Of itself, if there were no other, it is considered a sufficient
answer to the German Chancellor's plaint that the United State.?
"brusquely" broke off relations without going "authentic" rea?
sons for its action.
There was an intimation that Germany's astounding pro?
posal that Japan turn traitor to her Allies had been answered
by Tokio.
The document supplies the missing link to many separate
chains of circumstances, which until now have seemed to lead
to no definite point It sheds new light upon the frequently
reported but indefinable movements of the Mexican government
to couple its situation with ihe friction between the United
States and Japan.
It adds another chapter to the celebrated report of Juks
Cambon, French Ambassador in Berlin before the war. of
Germany's world-wide plans for stirring strife on every conti?
nent where it might aid her in the struggle for world domina?
tion, which she dreamed was clOM at hand.
It adds a cJtWx to the operations of Count von BcrnstorrT
and tlie German Embassy in this country, which have been col
ored ^^ i t ri passport frauds, charges of dynamite plots and in
trigue, the full extent of which never has been published.
It gives new credence to persistent reports of submarine
basa on Mexican territory in the Gulf of Mexico; it takes cog?
nizance of a fact long recognized by American army chiefs?
that it' Japan ever undertook to invade the United States i?
probably would be through Mexico, over the border and into
! the Mississippi Valley to split the country in two.
It recalls that Count von BernstorfF, when handed his
passports, was very reluctant to return to Germany, but ex?
pressed a preference for asylum in Cuba. It gives a new ex?
planation to the repeated arrests on the border of men charge.I
by American military authorities with being German intelli?
gence agents.
Last of all. it seems to show a connection with General
Carransm'f recent proposal to neutral* that exports of food and
munitions to the Entente Allies be cut off. and an intimation
that he might stop the supply of oil, so vital to the British
navy, which is exported from the Tampico fields.
What Congress will do. and how members of Congress who
openly have sympathized with Germany in their opposition to
clothing the President with full authority to protect Amerirar.
rights will regard the revelation of Germany's machinations to
attack the United States, is the subject to-night of the keenest
interest.
Such a proposal as Germany instructed her minister to
make to Mexico borders on an act of war if, actually, it is no,
one.
MEXICANS KNEW OF PLOT
No doubt exists here now that the persistent reports dur
in;: the last two years of the operations of German agents not
alone in Mexico, but all through Central America and the We
Indies, are based on fact. There is now no doubt whatever
thai the proposed alliance with .Mexico was known to high
Mexican officials who are distinguished for their anti-Ameri?
canism. Among them are Rafael Zubaran, Carranza's Ministe:*
fo Germany, and Luis Cabrera, Carranza's Minister of Finance.
It is apparent that the proposal had taken definite form
when Zubaran returned to Mexico City from Berlin recenth.
His return from his foreign post was covered by the fact that
Carranza had called in many of his diplomats for "confer
enees." Some time before that Cabrera while still at Atlantic
City in the conference of the American-Mexican Joint Commis?
sion, had suggested in a guarded way to a member of the
American section that he regretted that the commission had not
succeeded fully in settling the difficulties between Mexico and
th United States, for. he said, he had hoped it might continue
its work and make peace for the world.
When pressed for some details of how the commission could
restore world peace. Cabrera suggested that the American re?
publics controlled the destiny of the war by controlling a large
part of its supplies. Mexico, he intimated, might do her part
by cutting off exports of oil. The American commissioner! dis?
missed his ideas as visionary.
Almost coincident with Zubaran's return from Germany
Cabrera returned to Mexico City, open in hi-' expressions of
anti-Americanism. Zubaran, before being sent abroad, had rep?
resented General Carranza here while the Niagara mediation
conferences were proceeding, and was no less .ivo.vedly anti
Ann rica n than Cabrera.
VON SCHOEN SENT TO MEXICO
.Meanwhile. Baron von Schoen. secretan- of the German
Embassy here, was transferred to the legation in Mexico City.
No explanation could be obtained of the reason for his transfer,
and such investigation as was possible failed to develop why a
secretary from the United. States should be sent to the German
Legation in Mexico.
Baron von Schoen's association with the mines, if am
all. does not appear. The only outward indication that he migiv
have been connected with them is found in the fact that he re?
cently had been detached from the German Embassy in Tokio
and was well scquaintd with the Japanese Minister in Mexic ?
City.
Carranzas peace proposal was openiy pronounced an evi?
dence of Gorman influence in Mexico by officials here, who de?
clared it was intended only to embarrass the United State*,
then, apparently! some influences showed their effect on the
course of the Mexican government, and on February 26 Cab?
rera, the Minister of Finance, issued a statement describing th?