The Evening Herald

STILL FRIENDLY WITH BERLIN.

Many of the German citizens in the City of Mexico are related to Americans, and they correspond freely with residents of the United States. They receive all the American newspapers and magazines and are able to keep themselves almost as well informed about events in the United States as the German embassy in Washington was before diplomatic relations were broken.

Though it is impossible today to send information to Berlin from Mexico by wireless, the mail route via Cuba is still open to Spain, and from that country the German representatives have the use of an uncensored wireless.

A few weeks ago, when there were reports that German agents in Mexico were plotting against the United States, President Carranza summoned the German minister to inform him that the government would not permit attacks on a friendly government to be hatched on Mexican soil.

The Germans today are working quietly, with but one object. They know that after the war, when the real fight for raw materials and commercial supremacy will begin the greatest possibilities for Germany lie in Mexico. That country has many of the raw materials Germany will need; and the Germans figure that it will be easier for German merchants to buy in Mexico if that country remains neutral than in any belligerent land. For this one reason alone it is highly in the interest of the kaiser's government that Mexico shall remain friendly with Berlin.

—Carl W. Ackerman, in the Saturday Evening Post.