GERMAN INTRIGUES IN MEXICO

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3025, 12 March 1917, Page 5

GERMAN INTRIGUES IN MEXICO

i. FURTHER DISCLOSURES New York, March 0. A semi-official source states that £ powerful wireless plant in Mexico City lias established direct communication, with Germany. An investigation has been ordered. 1 It is believed that efforts wore mada by Germany to persuado President Carranza to invade Guatemala, with a promise that Mexico should hold Guatemala in the event of Germany'* success. The plans also involved British Honduras.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . von igeFmmenis INVESTIGATION BY A JURY New York, March 9- *. The "World" says that German plot* ters bought a tract of high-lying land' opposite the military academy at West Point. ■' . The Federal authorities! are investigating. ' A Grand Jury is investigating: the Von Igel documents.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Dr. Chanader Chakiaberty, a Hindu physician, and Dr. Ernest Schunncr, a Gorman, have been arrested in New York on a charge of setting afoot a, military expedition against a friendly nation. Accused admitted receiving £12,000 from Lieut. Wolf vou Igel (laf o secretary to the German ex-military at-, tafche, Captain von Papen) to start » r/volution in India. Chakiaberty re- . cently visited Germany under falso passports, pretending to bo a Persian.] GERMAN OFFICER ARRESTED Los Angeles, March 9. Alleged to have been connected with tho plots to destroy the Welland Canal, in Canada, Captain Alfred Fritzen, a German officer, has been arrested. It is believed that a connection has been established between Fritzen and Mr.-, Bopp (ex-German Consul-General at' San Francisco, who was convicted of oofienccs against neutrality). Fritzen visited Cuba and Mexico recently.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. VILLA ON THEMARCH AGAIN, (Rec. March 10, 6.55 p.m.) El Paso, March 9, Villa's party claim that their leader, has captured Durango City, and J3 now marching on Torreou with an army of . five thousand. —Reuter. ■