The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-12
MEXICAN SOLDIERS CROSS BORDER TO
 START UPRISING IN
 AMERICA, REPORT
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rected by Texans having headquarters in Brownsville. who. having a politi cal feuds, sent bandit gangs to rob and attack each other. Secretary Garrison expressed doubt that Mexicans from over the border were responsible for all the disturbances and emphasized that the troubles had no connection with Mexican internal affairs.
 "Conditions on the border" said Mir. Garrison, have no political signifi- canoe. Lawless people are using this time of excitement to plunder and steal and we are not sure that all the law breakers are Mexicans. Some of them we know are not"
 Further strengthening of the border forces will take virtually all available regular troops in the country. Officials today were considering whether it might not become necessary to use the national guard should the situation take on more serious proportions
 Disturbance Spreads
 Reports received here up until tonight indicated that the Mexican disturbance spread rapidly westward today until ru- mors of trouble developed at Laredo, POO miles up the border from this place. The arrival of troops in force from Laredo apparently had bearing on the shift of the bandits into the less populous sec- tions between here and Laredo,
 The belief here increased today that the movement is in reality an attempt to turn back part of Texas to Mexican con- trol. Army and federal investigators, it is declared here. have received informa- tion that the organizers of the trouble are working under the plan of San Diego, which calls for the death of evNy Ameri- can male over 16 years of age, in com munities along the Rio Grande and also along the border of Nsss Mexico, Arizona and California. It has been reported to Major General Frederick Funston that more than 5000 Mexicans are pledged to this organization already.
 Federal officials last winter nipped one attempt to put this revolution into effect when they arrested Mexican on charges of sedition, discovering in his possession details of the plan which were published at the time
 Rangers in Hidalgo county, pursuing some of the gang which killed an Ameri- can trooper near Mercedes last night, today captured a flag bearing the words, in Spanish:
 Army of Liberation for Mexicans in Texas"
 Authorities here tonight are watching the river below Brownsville, about 10 miles at point where it was reported several hundred armed Mexicans had gathered on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, waiting to cross the river under darkness.
 Officials here have reports that 1700 former Carranza soldiers have crossed the river along zone 120 miles wide, as the crow flies, from a point below Brownsville to Rio Grande City, up the river. There are said to have been at least 30 different crossings.
 Reports that politicians on the Ameri- can side was responsible for the uprisngs aroused much resentment here. At San Benito a mass meeting of protest was held. On June f. speakers at this meeting declared the Secretary of War had been informed that trouble was likely to break out on the American side from this source.
 Flfty-one citizens representing all polit- ical factions here addressed the follow ing statement to the Associated Press tonight:
 Statements attributed by you in to- days dispatches to the Secretary of War and General Funston to the effect tfat conditions of brigandage in Cameron and Hidalgo counties are due to any political feud are absolutely without foundation. All factions here are cooperating as American citizens to restore order and obtain adequate protection for our fami- lies and property"
 Telegrams of protest are being sent General Funston and the war depart ment.