The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1919-12-11
CARRANzA AIDED
ENEMIES OF u. S.
Mexican President Gave Support to
Movement to Disrupt Government
Counted on Strike Of Miners
and Metal Workers.

radicals in Mexico, with the knowl-
edge and support Of President Car
rama, plotted TO instigate revolu-
tion in the United States and to seize
the border states which were acquired
by the American government in 1913,
is contained in the memorandum pres
ented to President Wilson by Senator
Fall Of New Mexico, chairman of the
Foreign Relations Subcommittee in
vestigating the Mexican situation.
Plans for the revolution were OBJ
tanned by the subcommittee from the
minutes of meeting last October 15,
in Mexico City, of Lodge %, an or
ganization of extreme agitators and
members of the Industrial Workers of
the World. Carranza is linked most
directly with the plot thru correspond
ence in which he recommends three
men for special consideration because
of their connection with "the plan
which they desire to put into practice
in the state of Texas" These men,
the committee says, have been identi-
fled as active agents of Lodge %.
The memorandum, which contains
an abstract Of the evidence collected
by the committee, was delivered to
the president by Senator Fall Friday
night and made public late today.
Planned Revolution in u. S.
The notes of the October Is meet
ing Of the radical lodge declare
"there appeared three delegates, two
Americans and one Mexican, who had
arrived from the United States and
who claimed that the society would
be able, at the beginning of next No
vember (that is, November, 1919, to
call general strike Of all miners and
metal workers in the United States;
that they have 100000 adherents in
that country, where they will be able
to seize one Western and two Atlantic
ports; that a large number of Ameri-
can soldiers were preparing to take
sides with them, and that they pro-
posed to establish a capital of re-
formed government of the United
States in the state of Colorado that
when such revolution was successful,
the Mexicans rendering their assist
ance, the border states which were ac-
uuired by the United States under the
treaty Of 1S4S, would be returned to
Mexico.
Carranza Endorsed Plot.
The three men referred to are the
same, the memorandum says, as those
mentioned by Carranza in letters OF
which the committee has secured pho
tostatic copies. The first of these let
ters, dated June A, and addrest to
Manuel Aguirre Berlanga, Mexican
minister of Gobernacion, says:
"Senor Limo Caballo, bearer of this
letter, is the person who, in company
with two friends, will bring to you the
manifestos and the plans which they
desire to put into practice in the state
of Texas.
"This plan being very favorable for
Mexico, please aid them in every way
and give the necessary instructions in
the frontier states.
81 remain, your affectionate friend,
"V. CarranZa.'
The second letter. dated August i3,
and addrest to the same government
official, follows:
''The present letter will be delivered
to you by Mr.. Juan N. Garcia and the
two friends from Texas who accom-
pany him, and in accordance with our
conversation please give them the
guarantees they solicit, as well as the
necessary pecuniary assistance they
may desire.
81 remain your friend affectionate-
ly, "V, Carranza."
Negotiations With Japan.
Other information obtained by the
committee and which it regards as re-
liable, indicates treaty negotiations
between Mexico and Japan. The doc
ument in possession of the committee
says that one high official of Mexico
would communicate to another high
official that ''the treaty with Japan
is coming along" and that the writer
is convinced of the "great advantages
it would bring Mexico for its nation
al integrity"
Reference is contained in another
document to the support of the Mex
lean government proposes to give Ger
man commercial initiative in Mexico.
Senator Falls comment on the plan
of revolution disclosed in the minutes
of the lodge meeting is that it would
appear "preposterous, ridiculous and
SO fantastic as of itself to deserve lit
tie attention were it not first, for the
fact that it is similar to all essentials
10 the pan OI DdIt DitSOs WHlSH bilS
only judicial tribunal passing upon the
question was declared to have been
backed or supported by armed forces
thru a state of war by V. Carranza in
1915, and second, were it not for the
fact that the plan of San Diego itself
antedating, and this present plan fol-
lowing, were and are in exact line
with the note of June 19, 1917, from
Zimmerman to Won Eckhardt, then
ambassador from Germany to Mexico.
Like German Plot.
The Zimmerman note contained the
paragraph "We Germany shall give
general financial support Ito Mexico)
and it is understood that Mexico is to
reconquer the lost territory in New
Mexico, Texas and Arizona"
In this connection the memorandum
called attention to the suggestion in
the Zimmerman note. that Mexico
communicate with Japan, suggesting
adherence to the plan and offer her
mediation between Japan and Ger
many.
The evidence in possession of the
committee, Senator Fall informed the
president, indicates that conditions
now along the border are rapidly
taking on the same character which
has been assumed in our relations
with Mexico prior and subsequent to
the date fixed for the uprisings under