America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 27 February 1918, Page 5

America

A MEXICAN MATTER.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra liao and N.Z. Cable .Association Washington February 25. The State Department has asked Mexico to investigate the killing of one American and the wounding of two by Mexicans at Tampico. GENERAL ITEMS. The authorities have issued a statement showing that the former editor of the newspaper Gaelic, an American, directed the attempted shipment of German supplies to the Sinn Feiners. Prior to Sir Roger Casement's arrest, the secret service agent seized a letter and advised the British, who Avere thereby able to capture the ship bound for Ireland. The authorities have also published a German letter, circulated through the Spanish army, urging closer relationship between the Spanish and German armies and endeavoring, to prevent Spanish merchants from supplying the American forces in Fiance. .. ; Eugene Schwerdt, a millionaire wool merchant, has been arrested on a charge of being a German agent. He will be interned. It is stated that he conspired to corner all the wool in America for Germany. He holds £600;0(XT worth of wool, stored in Washington.