NEWS OF GERMAN PLOT
SOLIDIFIES AMERICANS
Count von Reventlow Dives Sentiment, Heretofore Divided, Now United Kingdom Resident.
PROPRIETORS OFFICE TO MEXICO
Expected That Chancellor and Foreign Secretary Failed to Help Opportunity to Express Themselves Concerning Policies.
My Associated Press.
HEHLIN, March 4 (via London, March 5).—While some of the German papers have received the news of the German Mexican intrigue with comparative indifference, others have vigorously denounced the policy of Foreign Secretary Zimmermann, and among these is the Tager Zeitung. Count von Reventlow, formerly one of the most ardent advocates of unrestricted submarine warfare and a general supporter of extreme measures, writes:
"As a result of the publication of the German offer to Mexico, sentiment which has heretofore been divided in America is now solidly behind the President. This circumstance of its possible results are hardly calculated to fill us with pessimism. However, those circles who have been basing hopes for the preservation of peace on divided public opinion in the United States are now forced to deplore the turn things have taken, and to doubt the wisdom of the German policy which, so far as Mexico is concerned, may be stigmatized as bringing a lighted match in contact with a powder cask." 