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Show ZIMME1A1 IS DENOUNCED COPENHAGEN, Via London, April 1, 11:15 p. m. The German-Mexican alliance incident, it is evident from reports brought by persons recently arrived from Germany and from press reports of the reichstag sessions, continues con-tinues to provide unpleasant moments for Dr. Alfred Zlmmermann, secretary for foreign affairs. His defense of his action behind the closed doors of the reichstag committee and in the open house has not availed to check either public or private criticism of the act Itself and, still more, the greater great-er crime of being found out. Dr. ZImmermann's latest explanation explana-tion in the reichstag on Friday is dismissed dis-missed by the Tageblatt as avoiding the real crux of the matter, namely, the wisdom of the step as a matter of policy. Formal justification for the proposal Is unquestioned, but, as the Tageblatt points out, the vital point is the effect that tho overtures might be expected to have on Mexico, on Japan and on public opinion in the United Slates, particularly in the western west-ern and southern states. Regarding Dr. Zimmermann's statement state-ment that the manner in which the American government obtained cognizance cogni-zance of the instructions is still under un-der investigation, the Associated Press is informed from an authentic ' I German source that it is known that ! this COUld Only have OCClirrnrl thrnmh the United States government being in possession of the code in which the instructions were telegraphed, either i before they reached Washington or while on the way to Mexico. The lat-1 ter is regarded as the more probable, and there Is considerable anxiety as to the further material which the United States may have obtained ' through this insight into the most! confidential German communication. The channel whereby the instructions instruc-tions were conveyed to Count von Bernslorff, the former German ambassador ambas-sador at Washington, Is described I mysteriously as a "special and particularly partic-ularly secure" one, but It is considered not impossible that the foreign office took advantago of the state department, depart-ment, -which allowed the American embassy at Berlin now and then to transmit communications between the German government and Count von I Bernstorff. Embodied within such dispatches were other messages, in a second "Inside" code. One such' mes- I satje was transmitted by Ambassador i Gerard about tho date of the Mexican ' discussion.' The text of the instructions as j made public from Washington has never been published in Germany. An ostensible text lias been made public in Germany, but that was subjected to a few, though important, revisions, including omission ofthe offer to Mexico Mex-ico respecting Texas. Even at that the Socialist critics have ridiculed the idea that the Mexicans would consider the possibility of conquering Arizona and New Mexico and have characterized character-ized the idea of a war between the United States and Japan as a dogma like tho earlier one of "the inevitable Russo-English collision," |