Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-02

entire Carranza force throughout
Northern Mexico armed, fed and
clothed by controlling Lower Califor-
MIA.
The Big Hole, the laxity of the Will
son administration, the full freedom
of movement on the Mexican side and
a few caches in the Mexican hills
these facts nullify the necessity of in
vasion by big Carranza force.
United States government authori-
ties do not care to be quoted on con-
ditions, particularly bona fide Wilson
adherents. Yet any Wilson man doing
executive duty over the so-called bor-
der patrol will admit-providing his
name isn't used-that the interna
tional aperture is fact.
"If the Wilson policy has been 'neu-
trality,' why the gap IN the boundary
line?" one United States government
official at San Diego said. "Why
haven't they thrown force of soldiers
along the line to keep smugglers OF
arms and ammunition away? Do they
expect at Washington that the few
men in this district are superhuman p
Down along the boundary, on this
side. is a little mountain called Te-
cate. 1t is near Potrero, where there
are no guards and but one customs in
spector.
East of Potrero and Tecate is Q
stage station, DulZura, and just south
of it is rise called Lit,,e Tecate
Tecate and Little Tecate are on the
border. And from San Diego through
this country is a splendid auto road.
Smugglers working out of San Die
go find no difficulty in putting ton on
ton of arms and ammunition across
the border at this point. Let any one
talk to any taxicab driver, to any
rancher across the line, to the United
States guards even, and they find the
trail to the hotbed of the revolution.
1t will lead first to a little Spanish
restaurant in San Diego, perhaps, and
then north to Los Angeles, where the
smugglers are said to have their foun-
tain head at Carranza headquarters.
Carranza clubs in San Diego do not
faunt their flag over the doorways of
their rendezvous, but they do not
deny their party when they are locat-
ed And through these clubs negotia-
tions for the arms and ammunition are
conducted with American smugglers.
At Dulzura, at Campo, at Jacumba.
and at other border stage stations
between San Diego and Calexico, many
bordermen know and are familiar with
the workings of the smugglers.
anybody without conscience
could establish a regular smuggling
service in these parts" one rancher
at Campo declared. "But if Washing
ton doesn't care to patrol the border,
why l guess it's not up to US to inform
on the men who are carrying on the
traffic. They do it openly enough
They don't get caught, because Wash
ington doesn't want to catch them"
A chauffeur in San Diego said that
he had just left trio of men at a
Turkish bath, because they needed
some of the mountain CRIME rubbed
out of them, having just carted big
auto truck load of arms and ammu-
milton from the vicinity of Marine lake
south to cache in the Mexican hills.
One of these smugglers, he said, is
an employe of the city of San Diego,
by way of vocation. His avocation is
furnishing the Mexicans with the
things that are prolonging the war.
Leo V. Youngworth, the United
States marshal, said recently in Los
there have been but one or
two of such smuggling cases in his
office in the past year; this despite
the wholesale traffic going on.
Los Angeles is said to be the ship
ping point for more than half of the
arms and ammunition that goes into
Mexico through the Big Hole. But
contrary to the exploited idea that
the arms and ammunition are pur-
chased by individual sympathizers and
turned into the general junta for ship
ment, one young man, who candidly
admitted he has driven smugglers
across the border, stated tonight that
the arms are purchased by wholesale.