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Show Report of German Plot. WASHINGTON, May 20. New reports of a German plot to destroy the Tampico oil wells, from which the American and British navies draw a large part of their oil supplies, reached the state department depart-ment today. They said an attempt to destroy the wells was to be made tomorrow. to-morrow. Officials here ure depending on the Mexican authorities to protect the wells, as a large part of t he Mexican government's govern-ment's revenues are derived from oil taxes |