The daily morning oasis., 1919-08-28
THE Dali Y MORNING OASIS

Germans counting aen and children it Twill be
at once how little reliability there is in that statement;
and by how little Doctor Atendor be trusted by any
body The accountant in "The Oasis" office, Mexican
gentleman who through thirty in official posi-
ton in Sonora, and thoroughly posted the editor
that there one hundred able bodied German
men in all Sonora and that those there except scattered
isolated cases, all in Guaymas and Hemoslo, where
they can be counted the fingers of two hands in
each city,
And the yarn about invading army of Germans and
Mexicans numbering $4,000 is another fgment of most
audacious and vivid imagination The total population OF
the state of is but about 100000 The usual
portion of capable of military service in any population
is one to fve To have raised army of $4,000 men IN
Sonora would have taken every man OF mntary age III W
state and then some Can understand why sucn
story could be accepted by anybody except through gor
ance malice?
In this remarkable interview Doctor Altendorf asserts
that he also exposed and betrayed tyeght other Ger
man hoents and he gives their Some OF those
names are borne by men "The Oasis" has known for
quarter of century They may have sympathlzed Win
fermany but they not spies. And the list Is more
significant from those omitted than from those included
he Oasis editor has scanned very closely and he fails
to find the name of well known German who made fire.
ouent trips between Sonora and the United States and was
believed by all In Nogales who know few things to be the
German dispatch bearer who kept informed certain Ger
mans in the United States who had their own means of
communication with Germany
The paragraph Immediately subsequent is another in
this remarkable interview given but by Doctor Aendor
81 discovered and prevented plan to wreck
large American copper mine at Pitiquite, near ia
borea Sonora, the structural steel to be taken to
Mexico City to help in building German nu=
nitions plant" 44ssa x-... i.
There large American copper mine near
Pitiquto There large American copper mine
anywhere in the Altar District of Sonora within which
located both Ptquo and dahorea Ntauita Ia about sX
miles from Caborca about six miles west from Ca
borca is the Lbertad Copper mne owned by John and
Alex Henderson of Pasadena 1t is small proposition,
employing half dozen shipping two three carloads
OF high grade in year. There never pound OF
structural steel that mine any other copper mine i'm
the Altar district In the Lbertad mine the Hendersons
have about hundred feet of track STEEL and that the
extent of the steel in copper mine in that part of So
This editor knows whereof he writes. He has
visited Pitquito caborca Lbetad and all that Altar
gion. -..<r~4.i "F:->;'
Then this remarkable interview goes pn to tell about
the proGeman sympathies of the Carranza government
and many prominent Mexcans. Granted. Did they
not have the German propaganda at work them the
tire time? Was it not militant aggressive and convincing?
Did not the United States have the propaganda at
work a the country? Did not succeed keeping
this country from making destruction Of the Lustania
bel? Has it not been found that that right among
the American one dollar year there were German
sympahizers Is not Paul Warburg head of the Federal
Reserve Banking system brother banker in Germany
who repued of the high financial advisers of the
German Empire? Does anyone suppose moment that
Paul Warburg be trusted as American for minute
any farther than he has to make himself trustworthy?
How much confidence has any rea patriotic American
the American patriotism in Barney Baruch? Of course
these gentlemen re now patriotic because they
0f nafrio hich
America into the finally. The same with Carranza
and all Mexcans They have had their eyes open to the
deceptveness of Germany and the straghtorwardness of
the United States They not going to make any far
ther trouble They will not make the same mistake twice.
AS for Doctor Altendorf: It looks very much
though the Association for Protection of merican Rights
in Mexico is his meal ticket and he is working for all
it is worth.