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Show IsTeIfF vonegkhardt German Minister to Mexico; Since 1915 Is Recalled to Fatherland. MlxrrO CITY", T'cn. 21. (Hy the Aft-BOciafr-d I'rcaa.) inrlt:h von K:kH;irJt, the German minister to Moxko tiirmo 1315, and the diplomat who figured in tho 7A minor rnann disclosures early In 1017, whon the German Kovnrnmcnt mado a futile attempt to lino Mexico up OKalnst tho United States, has been recalled by 1 )id present German government. Thid was learned officially this evening wImmi tho announcement was moda that Minister von Kckhnrdt had notified the Mrxican pn enintunt .of his recall. The diplomat expectft to make his farewell (alia within a few daya and lo leave f"r Germany by way of tlio United States. The notice of his recall waa 'ent to Von Krkhardt through Yf,'rtii'ij lionillaa, ihf Mexican ambassador at Washington, more than rive weeks afro, but apparently the German minister here paid no attention at-tention to the instructions uf the new German KOverninent. About ten days ago iiddltional orders were Bent to. Von Kckhardt. . The diplomatic affairs of Germany in Mexico will he left in the hnnda of Dr. Arthur von MangitK, counselor ot the tiwrman legation, who, it is stated, h:is been given positive inatructioiiH by his K' ernment to cease an I i-American propiigandii In Mexico. Mmist.r von Kckhardt has been credit, cred-it, td with being the director of violent Hiitl-Ainrrh-an propnganda which lias b.cn carried out in Mexico by pro-German and Gerinan-ovned papers, which ut various times published false stories with tho evident inU?nt of embroiling Mexico and the United States In war. it was to Von EcUhardt that Pr. Al-IYcd Al-IYcd Zimmrmani-i, then Gtivhii foreign secretary, sent a rr.cssago dated January V.I, 1ft IT, through Count von Uernstorfl', former German ambassador at Washington, Washing-ton, proposing an alliance with Mexico nnd Japan to make war on tho. United Slates if the latter country did not remain re-main neutral. Japan, through Mexican mediation, according to the Berlin instructions, in-structions, was to be urged to abandon I ho allies and join in the attack on the United States. |