The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-09-16
MEXICO EDITOR
GAVE DEBEKKER
INFORMAL
ADMITS PLOT CHARGE
INSPIRED BY WEEKS
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee Forces Admission
From Witness

WASHINGTON. Sept. 15.-Statemcnts
issued by the League of Free Nations
association IN countcract what tho or
ganizatiun has charged to be a plot TO
force intervention in Mexico were
largely based on information received
from George +. Weeks. publisher Of the
Mexican Review. n Carranza organ. l..
J. Dchekkcr today told the Senate For
cien Relations sub-committc Investigate
ing tho Mexican situation. Dcbekkcr Is
n member OF tho leagues committee on
Mexico. and a previous witness had tos-
tilted he was the author If most of the
literature sent out by the league for
publication.
Admission that he received his infor-
nation as to conditions in Mexico from
Weeks was made by Dcbckker in the
course Of a sharp cross examination by
Chairman Fall and Senator RrandcGec.
Of the subcommittee. TIL" same cross
examination brought out that Debekkcr
based his charges Of an organized move
H1FHl w lOTF' lHIfTNFHllnN OH HF"S-
paper rccorts." BAT further questioning
rs to the newspaper reports brought
the statement that none wNrc at hand
bur that he would "suhscrihr to a clip
ping bureau and get the evidence" de-
sired.
Defends Carranza.
Dcbckkcr defended the Carranza gov
eminent in his testimony and said that
nc believed Carranza was giving Mex
leo a better government than the United
States could. lie also asserted that
worse things had happened in the
United States than had occurred in
Mexico. Later cross examination
brought from him that oucsidc Of the
information gained. indirectly his only
knowledge of Mexican affairs was OBJ
tanned last spring during a six weeks
visit, four OF which were spent in Mex
icS City and the other two travelling
about the country as the guest Of Pres
idcnt Carranza and accompanied by Min
lister Of Finance Cabrera.
Members Of the subcommittee" and
the witness Clashcd time after time dur
ing the hearing. Al last Dcbckkcr. rails
Ing his voice. declared.
Il believe there is plot against
Mexico. ! believe that the President Of
the United States knows who is behind
that plot. No amount Of questioning
can shake my position on that point"
Stories Of naked Children-hoys and
girls-slccping together on the pave
mcnts OF Mexico City under n covering
Of newspapers, the boys unable TO look
forward TO any but III" "f bandltry
and the girls 10 a life that is worse,
wero told tonight TO the sub-committc"
by Miss Agnes Laut. who recently re-
turned from Mexico.
The report she brought out was not
in favor OF intervention. She insisted
that intervention was word that
should he eliminated from tho discus
sions Of the Mexican situation. Deter
mined. however. to tell tho truth" She
related n series of tales OF horror which
she declared wcrc few selected from
The thousands that have come out Of
situation exceeding in horror anything
in Belgium or Armenia"
Miss Iaut'S recital Of h"r story OF
hrutalitics and official corruption served
as background for a remedy She called
the lcnftcont racification" of Mexico.
and what Senator Brandag"c in his
Cross-cxamination referred TO as
charitable INVASION"