Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-13 | Page 8 | Treason Alleged by Zimmermann

TREASON ALLEGED BY ZIMMERMANN How Secret Instructions Fell Into Hands of American Government a Mystery. AMSTERDAM, via Ixmdon. March 13, 5 : 4f p. m It is asserted by the Nord Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitunc of Berlin, a semi-oflicial newspaper, that Foreign Secretary Zimmerman's instruction. in-struction. to Minister von Bckhard in Mexico, respecting a possible alliance of Cerniain with Mexico and Japan in case of war beinc the United States and Germany was not in tho form of a letter from Berlin to Washing ton or from Washington to Moxico. In an official announcement in Berlin Ber-lin on March 7, explaining Germany plan with regard to Mexico, it was said that the German government did not know how the American govern ment learned of the secret instructions but that n seemed that treason had been c ommit ted oil American terri- 1 lory.