The Book Of Yesterday | March 2

CONTROVERSIAL ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM PUBLISHED IN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS

March 1, 1917

In a movie, the salop is already full so it should be cleaned. This was the situation in the United States today in 1917. A decrypted telegram from Germany, called the Zimmerman Code, appeared in the headlines in newspapers throughout the United States. The telegram contained the secret relations between Germany and Mexico, sent by a German diplomat and foreign secretary Count Arthur Zimmerman, the German proposal that it would assist Mexico in Mexico's war against the United States. former territory of the Mexicans lost to them, on the condition that Mexico help Germany mediate through Imperial Japan to convince the Japanese to side with Germany. From Zimmerman the message was sent to the German ambassador to Mexico Heinrich Von Eckardt to be given to the Mexican foreign relations agency.

British intelligence seized Zimmerman's secret telegram on January 16, 1917, and when it thwarted Germany's plan, they handed it over to the United States government on the last day of February. Japan, mentioned in the telegram and then at war with Germany, stood firm against the Central Powers and opposed America. It was only on the first day of February in the same year that the diplomatic relations between Germany and the United States were severed due to the re-enactment of the reckless use of the submarine in the Atlantic.

In Zimmerman's speech at the Reichstag on March 3, he admitted that the telegram was true and authentic. This revelation further increased the sentiment of the Americans against the Germans, showing that the true color of the German imperial government. But there are other Americans, especially those with German blood, who still want to avoid the possibility of war. But the former American government, led by President Woodrow Wilson, withdrew from the war in Europe, wanted to confront Germany's aggression. The collapse of the Zimmerman Code was one of the main factors in the United States' entry into the war against Germany in April 1917.

FILIPINOS MESTIZO APPEALS PETITION TO REMOVE PRAYLES

March 1, 1888

A few years after the execution of the secularization leaders, the Spanish friars again challenged the authority of this day in 1888.

Several Filipinos and mestizos marched towards the house of a Jose Centeno, and there a petition was presented demanding the expulsion of the friars' orders in our country and the Archbishops in the country, which they said were no longer appropriate. stay in the country.

Jose Centeno is an acting civil Governor of Manila and a mining engineer who also sympathizes with the petitioners.

The petitioners tried to push their proposal to the Governor-General, and they also demanded the secularization and the return of religious orders to the lands formerly owned by the Filipinos. The mestizo Doroteo Cortes wrote the petition, accusing the friars of agreeing to the death of Father Jose Burgos.

Approximately 810 people signed the petition, but most of them did not know what they had signed and the opposite of the petition they wanted.

Authorities arrested Centeno and Cortes and all others who led the petition against the friars. Many of them have been imprisoned and deported to remote areas within our country. Once again, we saw how powerful the friars were in the government.