THE MEXICAN MENACE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 25 May 1917, Page 4

THE MEXICAN MENACE.

INVASION OF PACIFIC COAST

There is evident fear all klong the Pacific Coast that a German-Mexican army will invade the American States of the Pacific littoral (says the San Francisco correspondent of the Auckland Star, writing on April 9). A telegram was received in San Francisco a few hours before the sailing of the Antipodean mail steamer containing the fol_ lowing significant passage: "A total of 12,742 more Mexicans crossed the inter, national bridge here (El Paso) during the past fourteen days, then returned to Mexico, according to official reports received by Government agents. The unusual number of Mexicans, a majority of whom were men, has caused an investigation of reports that. Mexicans were being sent to El Paso and the border from the interior of Mexico by German agents."

A German aggregation in Chihuahua City went to Villa with a proposal to make a joint attack on the/ United States upon the expected declaration of war by the United States against Germany. From Laredo, Texas, comes a report that the military party of Mexico is strongly pro-German, and advocates the entry of Mexico into hostilities against its northern neighbor with all that such entiry implies. Th.c reports brought from Mexico City to Laredo assert that German influence and money have been active among certain of the military party and that certain members have m contemplation and preparation plans tor an extra active invasion of the border States after the United States has been goaded into making the first hos tile move It is also asserted that/these plans contemplate a fomenting of a revolutionary movement in Guatemala and the burning of the oil wells in the Hampico district from which the large part of the British naval fuel supply is drawn. General Maximilian Klaus a German-Mexican commander, has be§sw» n reoniiting of a brigade of dUUU Germans, whose duty it will be to force hostilities with the United States in Chi hli ah"3 and Sonora. Germany is Sfr to,.h^ e n promised the Mexican military chiefs Texas. Arizona and New Mexico m the event of th.c proposed alii Ksh PITT mf eef A' ™* also imtisn Honduras, bordering on Yuca-

It is plain to see that the United Trifle h^?° send a* expedition So dftw CP° ke °ff" th« Anticipated