The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-09
TR|PART|TE SPY AGAIN
CUTS LOOSE VOL EMILY
ON MEXICAN S|TUAT T|ON

EDITORS NOTE. The following
story is received through the AS
sociated Press, but the editor of
The Ardmoreite deems it his duty
to the reader to utter caution
against accepting the statements
Of Dr. Altendorf without some men
tai reservations. Atendorf claims
to have served as spy in the
employ of both the German and
the American governments and to
have been in the confidence of
President CarranZa of Mexico. He
claims that he was working in
the interest Of the United States
altogether. Some of his stories
previously sent out, in recent days,
have been recalled or altered by re.
quest of government officials at
Washington. There Is reason to
believe that certain ulterior mo-
tiyes are behind these Altendorf
revelations" Now, as always, is
good time to reflect when you
read.
New York, Sept. 9.-Between ST..
900 and $40 900 600 worth of goods
are smuggled annually across the
Mexican border, more than onofourth
Of which are arms and ammunition
according to a statement issued here
by the National Association for the
Protection of American rights in Mex
leo, quoting DR.. =. Il. Altendorf, for
mer member Of the United States mill
tary intelligence department, as au-
thority.
Responsibility to the "deviltries" of
Villa and other bandits was placed by
Atendorf ut the door Of American
manufacturers of arms and ammuni
ton who work hand in hand with
the smugglers' incidentally, he de-
clared that renegade American was
responsible for the attack on American
troops at Carrizal in June, 1916, when
two American Officers and 13 men
We're killed and % wounded, Dr. Al
tendorf said that the MeXicans who
made the attack We're short of ammu
milton at the time, but obtained sup
plies through the renegade, who, he
declared smuggled $l65,OOO worth
across the border prior to the attack.
"Nila Smuggles over 60 per cent OF
his munitions Dr. Alterdorf said. IF
that part Of his supplies were cut off
he would be forced out Of success, for
he could hardly keep going on the 40
per cent he buys from Carranzistas.
Doesn't it look as if responsibility for
l,,f. 1tt.ia a1bEn IN
the American manufacturers and deal
ers, who supply the so per cent? And
as the Carranzistas are worse, if that
be possible, than the Nillistas, and as
they in common with other manditti
down there must now also depend en-
trely upon smuggling for supplies,
does not the whole Mexican situation
create somewhat embarrassing ques.
ton of ethics for these same manufac.
turcrs and dealcrs?"
The renegade American mentioned
by DR.. Altendorf was said by him to be
an agent of Mexican Consul Cara
at Brownsville, Texas, and also Won
Eckhardt, the German ambassador to
Mexico, who was involved in the
scheme for an attack on the United
States by Mexico and Japan. This
man is declared to have bought $780,
600 worth Of nickel in August, 1917,
to prevent it falling into the hands Of
the Americans.
Dr. Alterdorf said that there was
one big drugstore in Brownsville
which received shipments of ammuni-
tion in boxes marked drugs and that
another dodge restored to by the SNUG
glers was to conceal ammunition in
Watermelons 50 as to get it past the
customs officials. "Usually,' he said,
lit does not seem worth while to take
so much trouble, for there are such
long stretches of unguarded territory
that nothing much but lazincss need
drive a smugger to take such risks" "
As an evidence that at present Villa
is rather hard pressed, DR.. Altendorf
declared that in March of the present
year the bandits wife pawned her jew
elry in San Antonio for $4,000 and