| Show IT A CORKER A washington dispatch of last sunday says that the whole of the united states lying west of the rocky mountains including the state of utah was as the inducement which germany held out to japan tor for an offensive alliance with me mexico ico against the united states through the instrumentality of the zimmermann note is the information which comes from a prominent democrat of the united states senate this part of the note was not given publicity and only the offer to mexico was allowed to become public tile the published versions of 0 the zimmerman note bore evidence of being censored and the comments made upon it in germany were carefully guarded and only referred to that part of the note made public the details of the german offer to japan in the event of an alliance with mexico are not known nor is it possible to learn whether tho the offer included hawaii the philippines or alaska the information available is meager but appears to i c acthen that the offer to japan was suppressed by the state department is probably due to the same motives which led the department to ask that thai the anti alien land bills in the oregon and idaho legislatures be killed it is recalled that in a speech in th the senate shortly before adjournment adjourn men senator phelan of california express s ed the belief that if germany was of fering the border states to mexico exico Nl it was doubtless offering the pacific coast coast states to japan it is believed of course that the german offer never reached japan and that the japanese government government has already assured the state department that it would not have entertained the german offer and holds none but the friendliest feelings towards the united states |
