Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1920 — CARRANZA PLOT IN WAR BARED [ARTICLE]

CARRANZA PLOT IN WAR BARED

Senators Also Hoar of Aid of Rods Id Conspiracy Against U. S. RAIDING PARTIES AUTHORIZED • - UoruwMis Pound Sympathy and Support During War—Country Drifting Toward Bolshevism. San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 23.—Carranza aud a few of his principal lieutenants Instigated and directed the long series of raids on American properties that begun along the Rio Grande early In 1015, according to documentary evidence placed before the senate subcommittee Investigating the Mexican altualton. This was supported by testimony by John A. Wulla, the district attorney of’ Brownsville, Tex.; L. It. Barnes, in, charge of the United Stutes urmy Intelligence work ulong the border during the war, and other witnesses. The committee obtulned from them t| and from documentary evidence, information tending to show that not only were the highest Mexican officials cog-' nleant of the program of the raldtngi parties, but that as late as June, 1915, they were still giving encouragement' to and aiding those who participated in those raids in plans iuimical to tbai United States. Germans Found Sympathy. Incident to the taking of testimony regarding connection of Mexican government officials with the raids, further information was obtained as tO' the success encountered by Germans In bidding for the sympathy and support of Mexico during the war and the present drift toward bolshevism. . T. B. Altendbrf, a Pole, who was ini the intelligence service of the American army during the war and who waai largely responsible for A the arrest of the German spy, Witske, now a prisoner at Fort Sain Houston, Tex., was placed on the witness stuud longi enough to identify Mario Mendes, the director of teelgraphs In Mexico, M of those whom Mluister vou hekhardt kept on his puy roll during the war. Alteudorf said Mendez’s job was to see that copies of ull messages from the United Htutes bearing on military uffairs were delivered to the Germau legation. Martens Busy In Mexico. A new note on the bolshevik movement In Mexico came from a copy of a letter written by Linn Gule to L. C. A. K. Martens, the bolshevlltl’s diplomatic representative at. New York. “Knowing you are the financial agent ofr tjm Russian society in New York," Gale wrote, “I take the liberty of asking you if you can give me financial aid in my propaganda in Mexico.” He udded the explanation that be was the edftor of a magazine devoted to the furtherance of radicalism. He explained that he went to Mexico to evade the anhy draft, “and since then," he added, "I have established very close relations with the Mexicon government, wlilch I urged to bolshevlze the country, and which will, T believe, do so. I hove been extended unusual help in various ways by President Carranza and his prime minister, Secretary Berlanga.” Carranza Helping Soviet. The. character of the testimony developed three phases of the program, the first that which tQok the form of border raids beginning in 1915, the second that held out as a halt by the Germans in the Zimmerman note when they dangled before the Mexicans tiie prospect of recovering the border states with the possible assistance of Japan suggested, and the present,” styled in the committee’s record, “the recrudescent plan.” The third Is closely allied with the impetus that ban been given the bolshevik movement and in support of that charge Chairman Fall announced there would be placed before the committee the minutes of a meeting of an anarchistic organization in Mexico that Indicate the existence of a conspiVacy to foment labor uprisings In the United States.