JEHHI1 PLOT PROPOSAL
NOT RECEIVED 01 MEXICO
Provisional Minister of Foreign Re
lations I'ornially Denies He
i'?K Approached.
/JAPAN ICHITKHATKS POSITION
\lee IV?r?'lKn Minister Shidelinra De
clares Proposition Is Too Ridicu
lous for Word, mid That Tokyo
(*ovornment Remains Faithful.
I Hy Associated Press, J
GUA DA LA J AHA, MK.\., March 3.?
General Cundldo Agullar, the Pro
visional Minister of Foreign notations
to-day formally denied that the Mex
ican government had boon approached
by Germany with the ohjoct of form
lug an alliance hostile to the United
States.
The statement given out hy tho
Mexican Foreign Minister says
"The government of Mexico has not
received In behalf of the government
any proposal for an alliance look I un
toward war with the United States.
*KI itl'ilicit I)i;t i.aiia i io\
IIV JAIMM'M'; tiOVKH.NMKVr,
I fly A.-f.'n |nti'<l J'resn 1
TOKYO, March 'J.?The declaratIon of
the Japanese Kuvcrnmtuit through For
eign Minister Viscount Motono, that
Japan has received no proposition from
Mexico or (Jenimny to Join In a pos
sible wnr against the United States
was supplemented to-day in a state
ment made to tlx- Associated Press on
' behalf of the government by Kljuro
Shidelinra, Vice-t-'oreign Minister.
"We were greatly surprised to henr
of the CSerman proposal." he said. "We
cannot Imagine what Cermany Is thinn
ing about to conceive that she could
possibly Involve us in war with t!i?:
United States merely by asking Mexl<-o.
This Is too rid lout oils for words. Need
l"ss to say, Japan remains faithful to
her allies"
'AMBASSADOR FLETCHER
RECEIVED BY CARRANZA
?Vi'ivly \ppoliHed \ TiK*ri?*si n I \ n) Pre
npiiIm 11 In Ocileiit Inln to
.Mr*lenn r'lr.Ht Chief.
