Mexico has undergone another revolution of the usual type. General
Carranza, the President, had to flee from his capital last Sunday, after having his political prisoners butchered. He owed his maintenance of power from 1915 onwards to the favour of
President Wilson, but he had ill repaid America for her friendly attitude. During the war General Carranza was the one avowed ally that Germany had on the American Continent, and Mexico was the refuge of all the German plotters -who had evaded the United States police. It was to General: Carranza that Herr Zimmermann propounded his scheme for an alliance between Mexico and Japan against America. The despatch was inter- cepted, and helped to convince the Southern and Western States that Germany was their bitter enemy. It is said that the fallen President has been captured.
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