Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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S. c t disclosure of Enmity and Treachery s of Mexicans Made By Former , a Intelligence Agent | ( New York, Aug. 23.?Revelations a f extensive German plots in Mexico e uring the war, which included a v roposed invasion of the United r tates by a German-Mexican army f 45,000 men at the same time that ^ tie Germans launched their last e rive on the western front in July, j 918, was made in New York last g aturday night by tne i\ationai as- | f ociation for the Protection of Amerlan Rights in Mexico, which gave ut a statement by Dr. P. B. Altenorff, formerly of the United States e ailitary intelligence department, fl eciting his experience as an Amerian secret service agent in that , ountry. Dr. Altendorff, the son of a Polish anker in Cracow, Autrian Poland, ^ bandoned a medical course in the ^ Jniversity of Vienna at the outreak of the war and fled to Mexico, there he was offered a position as ierman spy tQ operate against the ^ Jnited States by Kurt Jahnke, head f the German secret service in lexico. "With pretended reluctance" but ith secret joy, I accepted," he said, and at once found myself in a posi- ^ ion to render valuable service to ' fie Allies in general and to the ^ "nited States in particular." He pened communication with the borer as a volunteer worker to the lilitary intelligence department. a The association states that it has ^ avestigated his claims and that Brig. fc ien. Marlborough Churchill, the head ( f the military intelligence depart- s nent "spoke in terms of the highest * >raise of the zeal and trustworthy ' ess of Dr. Altendorff ^and the great s alue of the services he rendered. s In addition to explaining his ac- c ivities in Mexico, Dr. Altendorff 1 .arns the people of the United t States against a proposed German 1 ommercial conquest in Mexico. "Within six months after the ? Jnited States ratifies the treaty of 1 eace," he says, "Germany will have c omplete economic control of Mexi- r o. Within a very few ypars, if they C re permitted to carry out the plans 2 hey have formulated and are now I xecuting as rapidly as they can. he Germans will have absolute ecoomic, political and military control I f Latin-America, with headquarters z i Mexico. J Referring to the proposed invasion I f the United States, Dr. Altendorff r ets forth that in his dual capacity j s a captain in the German army t nd a colonel in the Mexican army r e helped train 900 Germans reserv- j >ts in Sonora, Who were to form j, |ie nucleus of the proposed German- r lexican army, and that in his true t haracter as an American secret ervice agent he prevented the raid ^ rom being carried out 0 "This ambitious scheme," he says e was financed by von Eckhardt (Ger- t ian ambassador to Mexico), and t as undertaken with the cooperation n f Carranza." 8 Dr. Altendorff, enumerating his t irvices in Mexico, says in part:' 0 "I delivered into the hands of the nited States military authorities ^ le German agent, Lathar Witcke, t lias Pablo Wabirski, the most im- ^ ortant individual capture of the ar, so far as America was concern - - - - - ? ? l * i. Wabirski boasted to me tnav ne ad blown up several munition plants ad stores of explosives, including le Black Tom explosion in New ork; blew up some ships andcausi disastrous fires in the forests qf re Pacific Northwest. "Wabirski was on his way to the 'nited States, by way of Nogales, .rizona on another mission "ofmurer and destruction when captured y me. On his person was found a opy of the German imperial code, nd that is understood to be the first ime that this code came into the ossession of the American Governlent. Wabirski was court-martialed, nd from the fact that his case is efore the President for review is elieved to have been sentenced to eath, tne only tierman spy to reeive such a sentence in the United Itates. "I also betrayed fifty-eight other ierman agents, and thus enabled he military intelligence department o keep effective watch on them, not o mention some renegade Amerians, who were giving aid and comort to the enemy. Other acts for which Dr. Altenorff claims credit includes: "Discovery of two German wireiss stations in Mexico, capable of eceiving messages from that county; reporting the plan for the Gerlan submarine raid along theAmer:an coast in April, 1918 one month efore it actually took place; reportlg agents sent by Germany in Mex:o to poison cattle in the United! tates, and the revelation of a plot y four Germans to blow up the hyro-electric plant at Niagara Falls. , Calling attention to German cons nercial plans in Mexico. Dr. Altenlorff reports that "the first attempt o carry out an ambitious German cheme for the. economic conquest ind ultimate military domination of >Iexico was a plan originated by the Jerman consul, Rademacher, at Guylymas, with the active aid of Govrnor Callcs, to build a cement plant rith a capacity of 90.000 bags a nonth at Hermosillo, Sonora. "The foundations were completed" le adds, "and materials for the suprstructure were on the ground in uly, 1917, when I reported the cheme in time to stop it and the actory had to be abandoned until fter the peace treaty had been signd. This factory was to furnish the ement for rebuilding piers and oth r structures and building new ones n the west coast "The American people ought to uiow" he continued, "that Mexico (ras* not neutral during the war, but in enemy, active to the extent of its imited capacity." Mexico gave no ewer than eighty German officers ommissions in the Mexican army ind assigned the train troops for ervice against the United States. Jerman uniforms were worn so comnonly in Mexico that even the local Mexican papers complained about it. "Moreover, the Carranza's direct rders Mexican telegraph wires were hrown open to German eode mesages. I personally carried orders 10m Carranza to Governor Calles 0 peimit the spy Wabirski to send ode messages freely." Prominent Mexican officials are illeged by Dr. Altendorff to have een on the payroll of the German mbassy. He says "Mario Mender lirector of telegraphs, received a alary of $600 a month from Von ilekhardt. Ilis brother, a Senato.vith influence received the same alary. A third brother who held 1 position in the postoffice, also relei ved $600 a month for opening anc. eading private letters and passing he information along to the Gernans." Dr. Altendorff states that he, peronally, late in November 1917, carried a request from Governor Calles. if Sonora, to Rademacher, the Gernan consul at Gauymas, for $150,100, saw the money put in a bag. ind carried the bag, accompanied by ledemaftier, to Calles. Continuing the statement says: "I was able to discover that von Ickhardt has guaranteed to Carrana an abundance of capital to turn dexico into an industrial country, n fact, von Eckhardt went to Gerrany last April - express pur>ose of financing German cooperaions and perfecting other arrangenerits for building great chemical >lants. textile factories, tanneries md all the other industries necessay to make Mexico independent of he United States and Europe. "As soon as the treaty is ratified here will be a hegira of a quarter f a million Germans from the Unitd States who will take with them o Mexico four million dollars capial. There are already 150,000 Germans in Mexico and German immiration on a large scale will soon urn the country into a German colny. - | "The activity of Carranza in drivT i ig Americans out and confiscating J koir nrnrmrtu ic OTnlainoH Kv thp ! ,IV" m? v 'rf i act that Germans with plenty of! loney stand reaay to pick up the roperty it bargain rates. "The full significance of all this I' mBH Hr Jh I becomes apparent when I tell yo , further that part of the Germa J scheme provides for great munitio [plants at Mexico City which wi make it unnecessary for Mexico t import her materials in the futun The treaty of peace restricts th manufacture of munitions of war i Germany, but it does not say anj thing about Germans manufacturin as large quantities as they please i Just R || Fresh Shipmer i WE HAVE JUST G0TTE1 THE BEST BEEF CATTLE ! TREE, AND ARE IN POSIT1 i I WANT IN THIS LINE WITH | j MARKET AFFORDS. ! OUR MARKET IS KEPI j TION AND EVERY PIECE 0 j HANDLED IN THE MOST S | SEND US YOUR ORDER Palace 1 J. H. EPPS, Prop. ; - .. rmm Kiln-1 j Tennessee I Dr. Thorne, of Oh "When the land hi I waste or time, energy to cultivate it until th the economic use of material, including ms lime supply." | MASCOTII AMFRIfAN I IMP niiiiiiuvnii liiiuu J KNOXVILLE h ifl' Bill sk'< I'B! iiiBiuliKlm h >1 r "Some time ago my wife's health sad her nerves go so bsd that two boon was considered a good night's sleep for her," says Mr. John Bntler of Boas, Ala Boute No. 8. "No matter how careful she was about her food it always disagreed. She had a full 'feeling in her chest, a heavy dull pain in her stoinucb and was fall of gas all the time. She wus very billons all the time and had to be taking medicine constantly. She was badly constipated and would go days without an action. "Rllt thincs arp different now I've never seen any medicine bring a person out like Dreeo has rpy wife.' She feels good ell the time, takes interest in everything. sleeps all night long: stomach troubles are over with, and the constipation e firely relieved. , Dreeo is made from juices and extracts of many medieinal herbal plants, which act on the vital organs in a pleasant and prompt manner. ' * Dreeo is highiy recommended in Kingstree by the Kingstree Drug Company. i WSRfSW Titf ifitAV/ u Mexico. Thus there is no practical n difficulty in the way of Germany's n plans for the next year." 111 "German agents are active dveryo where in Latin-America, and the e. newspapers have told us there is to e be extensive German immigration n to that part of the world in the near t- ; future. The result of the war did not er i end the German dream of n j conquest; it merely delayed eceived il of Bebf Cattle ^ IN A FRESH SHIPMENT OF EVER MARKETED IN KINGSON TO SUPPLY YOUR EVERY THE MOST CHOICE MEAT THE Nj ' IN THE VERY BEST CONDIF MEAT WE SELL HAS BEEN ANITARY MANNER POSSIBLE. S. '-,*0 Mctrket KINGSTREE, S. C I'MS * I SCOT) ai^ 'i Dryed i Rock Lime , * io, Has Well Said: sgins to need lime, it is a and money to continue is need is supplied; for every other fertilizing inure, depends upon the i -Bone Dry . j >; -Vjjl m STONE COMPANY, , TENNESSEE. -|S ffciam ' J1L