Zimmermann Telegrams: From Mexico to Berlin; No. 14

From Mexico to Berlin, No. 14, March 30, 1917.

Reply to tel. No. 22 . Greater caution than is always exercised here would be impossible. The text of telegrams which have arrived, is read to me at night in my dwelling house by Magnus, in a low voice. My servant, who does not understand German, sleeps in an annexe. Apart from this, the text is never anywhere but in Magnus' hand or in the steel safe, the method of opening which is known only to him and to myself.

Accordinig to Kinkel, in Washington, even secret telegrams were known to the whole chancery. Two copies were regularly made for the Embassy records. Here, there can be no question of carbon copies or waste paper.

Please inform me at once, as soon as we are exculpated, as we doubtless shall be; otherwise I insist as does Magnus also, on a judicial investigation if necessary by Consul Grunow.

With ref to tel. No. 11 Director Schmidt of the Deutsche Bank, New York, has telegraphed to Lima that the probability of an American loan to Mexico was increasing.