The sun., 1919-08-31
SAYS CARRANZA
IS BANDIT CHIEF
IN TORN MEXICO
DR.. Altendorf Declares Its
Chief Executive Is Orig
inal BOlshevist.
ALL GENERALS WEALTHY
Secret Service Official Bares
Conditions He Asserts Are
Worse Than in Russia.

with those who say that Mexico. left
10 work out her own political and eco
nomic salvation, will prove equal TO
the task and create a responsible ma
ton out Of the chaos there to-day DIR.
Paul Bernardo Altendorf takes UNI
compromising issue. Through the Ma
ticnal Association for the Protection
OF American Rights in Mexico Or.
Altendorf, who for fifteen months dur
Ing the European war was an attache
Of the United States Army intelligence
service in Mexico. says there are 49,
900 armed men in Mexico-Carranzista
as we'll as insurrectionists and plain
rebels-who are nothing more or less
than banditti; that Carranza himself
Is q glorified bandit chieftain and not
20 very glorifled either. and that al
ready Mexico has ceased to exist as
o nation.
Altendorf, an Austrian Pole, who
POSED as a German officer while OPP
Grating in Mexico for the United
States, says that Carranza's wealth is
computed TO be s15,000.0 all de-
POSTED in Chilean banks, and that his
lieutenants and those faction leaders
who are not Carranzistas have accu-
INFLATED enormous fortunes by out
lawry. The possession of a revolver
and a good Stetson hat is sufficient
warrant to make any Mexican Gen
eral, he declares.
Carranza he characterized as an orig
,nal Bolshevist. who may have got the
idea from William Bayard Hale and
Lincoln Steffens and their German
friends"
Bares Inside Facts
In a statement issued yesterday Al
tendorf says:
ITO discriminate between Carranzistas
and other banditS Is 20 make distinc-
ton without a difference. All alike live
by plumber.
"Of these rebels or banditu there are
1907 900 men operating in gangs of forty
to 1000 under thirty-seven known lead
ers of importance who hunt in definite
territories. In addition there is an I'M
known number of smaller fry who oper-
ate independently at times and again
assert allegiance to some larger gang
when they need protection
Included in this 100000 banditti are
about $4,000 men who part OF the time
claim to be Carranzistas and who actu-
ally do serve under his banner when ex-
pedient.
'But this Is not all the story. Car
ranza's actual. dependable military
strength Is $1,000 men. These men are
bandftti like all other Mexicans VINO own
a gun. They kill and rob just the same
as any so-called rebel In fact that
IL the way most of them get their sup
plies and their pay. That is also the
way they make their officers rich, and
in this connection IL is well to remem-
Der that the Mexican army has higher
ratio of Generals and Colonies and
Majors than any other military organ
ration on earth. Nearly all the rob-
berries Of paymasters so frequent in the
oil region are committed by Carranzis-
tas.
The point is there are $4,000 armed
men preying indiscriminately upon ma
tsves and foreigners in Mexico. The
men at the top get the largest share OF
the ewag; make no mistake about that
Carranza Is reputed to have S15,000,00o
on deposit in Chilean banks. His SON
tn-law, Gen Aguilar, has suddenly be-
come worth 100000.
villa worth sIs.OOO.000.
villa has cleaned up about s1s.00o.-
COO, part OF which he has used to finance
his raids and TO buy such luxuries as
$4,000 bathtubs and other things OF
that eort that a bandit king needs to
maintain his prestige The rest Is on
deposit in banks in FL Paso, St Louis.
New York and elsewhere, but none or II
in his own name.
Gen. Pablo Gonzales. q CarranZa
General and Presidential candidate, who
was a railroad conductor prior to 1914,
Il reputed to be worth s6,ooo.o00. He
ovrs extensive properties in San An
tonic held under various names. Gen.
Enr1quez, Civil Governor of Chihuahua,
formerly a common laborer. is now
worth $500, 900. Gen. Carasca, in COM
nand at Mazatlan. a few years ago a
porter earning $3.50 a week. is worth
$500. 600 now. Gen. lturbide, a poor
clerk few years ago, is now we'll to do.
Gen. Gales, formerly Governor Of
Sonora, now in command OF the troops
there and consequently the real ruler,
saved more than a million dollars in
two years out OF Government salary.
His son, 81 years old. is already q
Colonel Gen. Manzo, recently a basket
pedier, Is now worth several hundred
thousand dollars. Gen. Francisco Muir
gula, formerly a poor farmer Ca former
dictator Of Chihuahua), Is worth 1,500,-
600. Alvardo, who cleaned out Tucatan,
Is a millionaire.
THE minor bands pick up whatever
rhey can. hesitating at no atrocity. Men
have been murdered for an old straw hat
In Mexico. In Acaponeta. Territory of
Topic, in April, 1918, saw the body Of
poor man who had been murdered for
his new straw hat, costing s1.25. The
two Carranzistas who shot him openly
boosted that Lhe sole object OF the crime
was to get the hat. They were not even
arrested. man suspected of having a