The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-12-24

San antonio, Texas, December
20.-unitcd States District At
tcrney Camp stated today that
the government was preparing to
prosc:ue General victoriano Hu-
erta on the charge Of violation OF
American neutrality laws. II Is
believed that the matter will be
taken up by the federal grand
jury which meets here on Janu.
airy a.
San Antonio, Texas, December 90
Aged and broken since his arrest by
the government last summer on the
charge of violating American neutral
ity. General Victoriano Huerta. one
time dictator of Mexico. was to be
brought before the federal grand jury
here today with FIVE OF his generals
TO testify concerning the s12,00O,00O
Germany is alleged to have furnished
Huerta with which to start another
revolution i'm Mexico.
New York papers recently. published
what purported to be extracts from
United States secret service agents
reports telling of the alleged expen-
diture 70 s27,000,00O of German money
for pro-German propaganda in the
United States, by Captain Franz Won
Rintelen. Twelve millions of this
amount. the reports are said to have
shown, were to be used by Huerta I'm
fomenting the new revolution in the
hope that the United States might be
so involved in Mexico that II would
have no time TO heed Germany.
The report contains affidavits show
ing the efforts, made by German
agents to purchase arms and ship
them to Mexico as an armament for
General Huerta.
The description of the expenditure
of the s12,0C0.000 has to do with the
activities i'm this country of Captain
Franz Won Rintelen and his associates.
Captain Won Rintelen arrived from
Europe at the same time General
Huerta came here from Spain. He
left this country after Huerta's ar
rest and the publication OF details OF
the plot in which Huerta was alleged
TO be implicated. Won Rintelen was
taken of to Noordam by the British
and placed in the Tower of London,
where II has been reported that he
was shot and later that he was still
alive, but soon to be shot. The report
gives greater details of the work Of
Captain Won Rintelen, and contains eyi-
dence against the men who represent
ed him in buying ammunition and
seeking to smuggle II into Mexico.
The evidence comes from scores OF
witnesses, and many OF them will be
called before the federal grand jury
in this city. The government has
witnesses ready to testify, II said. re-
garding a conspiracy first to equip
Huerta for a revolution and after his
arrest, to aid Felix DiaZ. and later to
aid Villa At first, II is said. the object
was to involve the United States In a
Mexican war in order to put an end
to the danger of trouble with Ger
many, but after the German crisis
passed the plan, It is said, was to
force the United States to comman-
deer for its own use the great output
CT arms and ammunition now being
exported to the allies. The connec-
ton of Captain Boyd and Of Cap
tain Won Papen with the expenditure
of this money is said by men close
to the Mexican consulate in New
York to have caused the request for
their recall.
A hint of the part :" - ed by
Felix Diaz reached re ''"ardan.
the Carranzista agent ~ Washington.
who Cisclosed the pl United
States Consul Silliman al Vera Cruz,
with the result that shipload OF
arms and ammunition destined for
Diaz was stopped at New Orleans.
During the attempt to stir the revolu-
ton in Mexico Captain Boy-Ed, Won
Fapen and others I'm the conspiracy
we're alleged to be active In obtain
ing Mexican passports from Germans
and German sympathiZers in that
country to enable them to get back
to Germany. Some went on Mexican
passports to become spies in England,
France and Russia. With Huerta to-
day will be his generals: Ygnacio
Bravo, Eduardo Caus, Jose Delgado.
Enrique Corostieta and ]. s. Rather.
charged jointly with having plotted to
organize q revolution IN the United
States and invade Mexico sirnultan-
eously from several border points. All
this is according to the alleged secret
United States report.
Huerta was arrested in west Texas
last summer in company with Gen.
eral Pascual Orozco. The former die
tator waived preliminary examination
in Ell Paso, July 9. and on his refusal
to furnish a $4,000 bond was con-
fined at Fort Bliss. His health failed
and a few weeks ago the federal
authorities allowed him to go to his
family in FL Paso, under surveillance
of United States deputy marshals.
Orozco forfeited his bond, became
leader of a bandit gang and in Sep
TENDER was killed in the Rio Grande