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58 New York by the "Spanish-American News Agency." These telegrams, which the United States censor was permitting to pass while I was in Mexico, were not only intensely pro-German, but exceedingly anti-American.

Before the United States declared war the German Embassy in Washington sent a daily telegram to the German Minister in Mexico City, Herr von Eckhart. This despatch contained the wireless news circulated by the German Admiralty and Foreign Office. When the United States declared war the service ceased, and an organisation known as the "Spanish-American News Agency," with headquarters in New York, began to serve El Democrata and several newspapers in South America.

Judging from the despatches I saw printed, this concern succeeded the news service of the German government, operating as a Mexican company. The "Spanish-American News Agency" was, and doubtless still is, doing more to cause trouble between the United States and Mexico than any other public agency in the Mexican Republic.

Another publicity prostitute is La Defensa, an afternoon newspaper also controlled by German interests. It announces daily some great catastrophe to the United States or the Allies. While I was in the capital it proclaimed an American revolution. It announced the sinking of several American battleships and transports. It forecasted American intervention and printed the