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Show TREACHERY ON AMERICAN SOIL IS CHARGED LONDON, March 3. Foreign Secretary Secre-tary Zimmermann 's instructions to the German minister to Mexico, as published in the United States, are admitted in Berlin to have been correctly quoted, according to a dispatch to Keuter's from the German capital by way of Amsterdam. Amster-dam. The dispatch quotes the following telegram received in Amsterdam from Berlin on Friday and which was apparently appar-ently sent by the Wolff bureau, the semi-official news agency: The American press contains reports re-ports about instructions from the ministry of foreign affairs to the German minister in Mexico City, in the event that Germany, after the proclamation of unrestricted submarine subma-rine warfare, failed to keep the United States neutral. These reports re-ports are basod on the foreign facts: Planned in Advance. After the decision had been taken to begin unrestricted submarine warfare on February 1 we had to reckon, in view of the previous attitude at-titude of the American government, with the possibility of conflict with the Tinted States. That this eal-.cul.ition eal-.cul.ition was ripht is proved by the fact that the American government severe; diplomatic relations with Gcnrmr.y soon after the proclamation proclama-tion of a hnrrod zone and asked other neutrals to follow her esam- Anticipating these possibilities, it was not only tiie rii;ht, but also the duty of our government to take precautions in time in the event I of a military conflict with the Tnitcd States in order to bnlnnce, if possible, the adhesion of the foes of a new enemy. The German minister min-ister at Mexico, therefore, was in-ftTucted in-ftTucted in the middle of January that in the event of the United Slates declaring war, he should offer of-fer to the, Mexican government an alliance and arrange further details. These instructions, by the way, ex-presslv ex-presslv directed the ministers to mako'no advances to the Mexican government unless he knew for a certainty that America was going to declare war. Treachery Charged. Plow the American government received information of the instructions instruc-tions sent by a secret way to Mexico Mex-ico is not known. It, appears, however, how-ever, that the treachery and it only mu6t have been treachery ' was committed on American territory, terri-tory, t . A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam Am-sterdam savs the Berlin Telegram, in regard to Secretary Zimmermann 's instructions in-structions to the German minister in Mexico, is semi-official. Renter's Amsterdam correspondent says the Berlin telegram ia not received there as official. The German press has been ordored not to publish a word regarding the American-Mexican revelations until further fur-ther notice, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company. The dispatch says that only a few circles are aware of the intrigue, and that it is considered possible the result of the affair will be the resignation resigna-tion of Foreign Secretary Zimmermann and the ending of Count von Berns-torff Berns-torff 'B career as a diplomat. |