Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-12
BLAME DRAFT EVADERs
FOR TROUBLE IN MEXICO
Senate Subcommittee to Receive Full
Details OF Propaganda Being
Circulated.
200 WITNESSES ARE CALLED
Mexican Paper Boasts That Fully
10000 Americans Escaped Army
Service by Fleeing Across the Rio
Grandc River.
tBy Associated Press. !

SAN ANTONIO. TEN, Jan. lin
formation regarded by government
agents as evidence that Carranza gov
crnmcnt officials are countenancinG q
plan to establish n Bolshevist regime in
Mexico and that the radical Program is
supported largely by American army
draft cvaders will be given to the Sen
ate subcommittee investigating Mexican
affairs at hearings here this week. SEN
ator y. Il. Fall, Republican. New Mex
leo. chairman OF the committee, Is ex-
pccted to arrive tomorrow. Summonses
for over 200 witnesses have been is
sued.
Not all the testimony offered will be
unfavorable TO he present Mexican ad :
mlnistration Supporters OF the Car
the committee the names Of many, who.
they assert, Will he able 20 counte ract
at least some of the statements of
spccEtl Investigators, refugees and or
dinnry observers.
Assertions that Americans who fed
20 Mexico to escape the draft are i'm
plcated in the plan to bring Mexico
under the rule OF the radicals are based
on statements published in the Official
ice.
Records 10 support Claims.
American government records and re-
ports OF special agents tend to support
the statements. According to the Mex
lean published boast. 10000 Americans
escaped service in ;he army by fiEht
TO Mexico. Most OF thcnI have returned
10 thc United States, but many remain
ana the names of !, few have appeared
IN the literature OF the Communist and
J.. w W. organs as actively engaged in
iurtherins the cause Of radicalsm.
documents which will be placed be-
fore the committee include the orEani-
zati"h Ot the Communist party of Mex
ico The international secretary is
Gs9rEe e"crn;e !. Barrsds. Enrique II; Arce is
iah!er'S nationality is given as Amer
lean. The members OF the executive
committee are: Barreda. Arce. Tabier,
M,asdalena E. Gale. Josenna Rarreda,
;SS;. -ara-G9o; {, Parker, Demitri
! Gale and Parker are listed as Amerl-
cans. MaSdalena Gale is the wife OF
Linn Gale. Nikitln is n Russian. but.
SsniraiIG ,eGTiraihIG TO the literature of the or
leo when summoned by the American n
draft board. Luna is Il Filipino.
/ Formerly Lived In Albany.
Gale, formerly of Albany. n. Y. who
IS editor. OF the official organ of the
communist party, is one OF the three
who has been appointed as delegates
20 me third Internationale at Moscow.
;;tnsel bernai. John Tut and Jose VII
iaIopoS are the executive committee OF
the /. W. w. branch in Mexico civ
over which organization the Communist
party has announced Il certain form OF
me invest cation of radicalism In
AleNico has shown it to be widespread,
according TO government agents.
Appeal of Communi.t..
Following is an "appear' recent,v
published i'm Mexico by the Communist
party and which will be submitted to
the committees: ~
ihe Communist party of Mexico an
peaiS 10 the Communist and left winr
Socialist parties of the world.
me worst bandits in the world
me bandits of internationaIism-h vo
pecn trying for many months to starr
Mexico. all"
These bandits. these brisands. these
criminals are outlaws undcservinr ~
any human consideration. They Ha vc
armies and navics. cannon. trains
horscs, gold unlimited They own and
controi governments, kings, presidents
UomE IeSScS' churches and colleges They
Moutn nave thousands or tens of thou.
SanuS SIaughtered so that they can own
1890 1890 ahd hcr riches, crush the ten
dencles toward Bolshevism here. wine
out ,', the taxes on their oil and their
mihes' and punish the Mexican peonie
ior REFUSING to participate i'm the late
war: the scattered and occasional han
Ilt tribes in the isolated mountain and
ueScrt parts of Mexico now and then
ron somebody and in rare instances
commit murder, but their crimes-much
,e as We ucplore them-do not cause ono
nl!lilonth part of the suffering that
ahothcr war would cause"
Ahotncr article captioned THE Ne
gro and War With Mexico" is an an
Washington "'