Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-13
'MEXICAN WRITER'S ARE
 CAUGHT IN GOVT.
Net Spread by Carranza for Foreign CTS Enmeshes Mexican News
 paper Men.

Mexico City, May 29.-( (Correspon- dence of the Associated Press)-Mex- ican newspapermen, as well as fore ign correspondents, have been caught in the net which the government re- gently spread for what are termed "pernicious foreigners" eligible for deportation under article 33 of the constitution, and disseminators of false news.
 A policy of "forcible investigation was the remedy applied 10 the edi- tors of Redencion, an afternoon paper opposed to the government. This paper in Tamaulipas, after he revolt ed against the government, and print ed somewhat alarming stories of conditions in that state.
 To prove it's contention that the news printed was false, the govern ment provided the two editors with an escort of general and twenty men and sent them on a trip through Tam aulipas by wap of Montery to Tam pico. Upon their return after jour ney that lasted about fortnight. the editors admitted they had not found the conditions prevailing to which they had referred. But, by implica- tion, they stated it would have been foolish for them to except to make an independent investigation with the escort that accompanied them. The editors concerned are Alfonso Barre ra Peniche and Manuel Baunch Alcal- de.
 Another editor whose arrest has been ordered and whose paper, Fl Hombre Libre, has not appeared for some time, is Hugo Sol He attacked the president and the administration.
 Attorney Emilio Ruz Quipano, re- sponsible for the publication of Tilin- Tilin, (Ring the BelD is also in the tolls. His sheet, a weekly, published a number of cartoons of a nature that aside from their political sig nificance, would never have been per mitted to pass through the United States mails. The cartoons were violently governmental.
 Cauterio, anti-government, which appeared more as ~a dodger on the streets than newspaper, has ceased publication for some reason which has not yet been explained pubi;cally.
 The "forcible Investigation treat ment was threatened in the case of reporters for Ell Universal, which printed stories of the exccsses com- mitted by the bandit, Jose Ines Chav- es Garcia, in Michoacan and Jalisco. The governor of the fedora! district, General Alfredo Brecedo, declared that, if the paper continued assertions of this kind, he would furnish the writers with a horse, rifle and pro- visions and send the mon q trip through the territory they said Cnav- es Garcia controlled in order that they might investigate conditions for themselves.
 Since Feliz Palavieini, founder of Universal fand leader of vtac anti German, pro-Ally, press campaign in Mexico sold his controlling interest in Universal and left for. the United States, for what he considered good reasons, stories of this kind have not appeared in Universal. Needless to say the prospect of interviewing 8 Chaves Garcia had no charms for any employee of Universal.
 No Pro- German papers of the half dozen published here, nor any em- ploye of these papers, has been mol ested. These papers, however, con- fine their attacks to the Allies and the United States in particular, and en- Enthusiastically support the present Mexican administration.