Show AoI LETTERS DISCLOSE JAPAN AND MEXICO ALLIANCE POSSIBLE Plan Was Formulated While America merica Was Engaged I IB in World r War WarBy WarBy ar B By Jay Jerome Williams W Correspondent I Staff StaIt Washington March 18 The The Senate subcommittee In esti investigating aUn- aUn the tho l fe Mexican l. l can situation has inn com come Into possession of a Do series of letters showing the tho ef efforts eC- eC forts torts of ot Elisco Arredondo Mexican Me minister to Sp Spain n and a Japanese diplomat dip diplomat dip dip- lp- lp lomat at the the- Spanish court to formu formulate late Jato an alliance between Japan and ana Mexico whereby the tho latter nation if it over ever attacked by another could rely on I tho Immediate assistance of ot Japan IA i iA A majority of tho the J letters It Is understood un- un unI I were these which passed between between between be be- tween Arredondo and tho Carranza government The contents of these re re- 1 Tent real in detail etall the strenuous work done j I Ib b by Arredondo to secure an offensive I and defensive treaty with Jap Japan n. n None one of the letters has as ns yet been made public The They are lra toda today in the tho hands handsor of or Senator Albert B. B Fall of or New r-ev MexIco Mex Mex- ico chairman of oC the subcommittee and ho lie now no js is in California presiding over Iho hearings of or that bod body Sanction Not ot Evident The correspondence it Is intimated was intercepted b by members of or the thc i American military and d n naval Intelligence Intelli- Intelli I pence Jenco sections It was carried carrle on while the thc United States was at war with J I Germany German and at a n period when the Jap Japanese esc government was one ono of ot the I allies aUles I There Thero is nothing to show however howe that the Japanese diplomat at nt Madrid I whose whore name has not yet et been made mado known ever e obtained the tho approval of or Ills Jils government g for tho the plan nor is there ther anything to sho show that tho can government g gave its absolute sanction sane sane- sancI I j tion to the plans of or Arredondo The latter though has lIas long IonS been one of oC the tho closest confidants of or Venustiano Carranza t president of or Mexico Whether a treat treaty of the nature outlined outlined out out- lined exists today is a a. matter of conjecture conjecture con- con jecture lecture and tho the burden of oC proof is in the thie c negative I Officials Arc n Agitated I Had tho treat treaty been consummated however It would have been aimed at only one ono nation the nation the United States It as for tor this reason that officials of the American government when the they learned of the plotting of or Arre Arredondo ondo I and the Japanese diplomat wore were so greatly agitated The negotiations between tho the two men were un undertaken er shortly after President Wilson announced the tho Interception interception inter Inter- of or a 3 note from Germany inviting ing lug Mexico and Japan to Join in a a. plot against the tho United States This com corn n it will wilt be recalled was the theamous famous amous Zimmerman note whereby Mexico was offered the tho opportunity to tor r rg gain ain her lost provinces provinces Arizona Arizona New Mexico co an and d California a. as her JC for joining In a a. aar war ar against the United States Stales Confidential Agent lent In U. U S. S The most astonishing shin feature of ot this heretofore unwritten record ord of or di diplomatic diplo plo plo- matic duplicity rests in the actions of or For two years ears he was the agent in the United States at f f. Carranza who then was the fIrste first e chief o of 01 the Mexican constitutionalists throughout this period Arredondo oJ man many times protested his friendship for tor forthe forthe the people of oC the United States Slates and the American government s yet he no sooner had left the country an and taken his new post at than ho began an tho the formulation for for- of ot schemes chernes which had the they gone one Into effect would have havo havoen given en Mexico a a. chance to declare war against the tho United States In the event any body of or our soldiers crossed tho the border bonier in search of ot Mexican desperadoes who had murdered Americans Under a tremendous dous plan this could be construed as lS an attack on the Mexican government an ana and anda a violation of or Its sovereignty n t and Mexico could Immediately call can on her ally aUy for aid ald |