Evening star., 1920-01-23
PLAN TO TAKE j. S.
TERRITORY Barred
Called for Mexicans' Attack
to Be Supported on
This Side.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. January "a
Additional testimony desg gned to show
that Mexican officials lent assistance
to the plan of San Diego" was ex-
peeted from witnesses ready to ap-
pear today before the Senate sub
committee here investigating the Mex
ican situation.
''The plan" according to evidence
adduced so far at the hearings. in
volved attempted recovery by Mex
ito OF American territory and provid-
ed for an attack upon American soil
by MSxicans, who were to be support
ed by negro and Mexican revoIu-
tionists on this side of the border
Unless unforeseen delays develop, it
was stated today. the San Antonio
night The committee then will go
u El Paso for further Investigation.
Lays Raids to Carranza.
! president Carranza and a few of his
principal lieutenants instigated and
objected the long series of raids on
-lmericaR properties that began along
the Rio Grande Yearly in 1915. accafd-
ing to documentary evidence placed
before the subcommittee yesterday.
by John A. Walls, the district at
torney at Brownsville. Tex; l.. r.
Rarnes, in charge of the United State
Army intelligence work along the
border during the war, and other witt
neSseS. -
German ActfVitiex.
Information also was obta ined as to
the success encountered by Germans
in bidding for the sympathy and sup
port of Mexico during the war and
the present alleged drift toward boil
shevism. T. b. Altendorf, Pole, who
was in the intelligence service of the
American Army during the war, was
placed on the witness stand long
enough to identify Mario Mendez. the
director of telegraphs in Mexico. as
one of those whom Minister Won Eek
hardt kept on his pay roll during the
war Altendorf said MeEdezs job was
to see that copies OF all messages
from the, United States bearing on
military affairs were delivered TO the
German delegation.
The character of the testimony de-
yeIoped three phases OF the pro-
gram, the first that which took the
form of border raids, beginning IN
1915; the second that heid OUT as
bait by the Germans in the Zimmer-
man note when they dangled before
the Mexicans the prospect OF recov-
erine the border states with the pos
sible assistance of Japan -.--..-
.Plan Of San Diego"
Summarized. %rhe Plan of San
Diego" a copy of which was read INTO
the record. follows:
"The states of Texas, New Mexico.
Colorado, Arizona and California are
to be invaded simultaneously, with
,,nrisinse of Mexican and negro citi-
zens on the American side. 4 sepa :
rate government is to be established
and remuneration to Mexico request
ed. Six other states contiguous to
this territory are to be carved out OF
the United States, to be formed into a
negro republic under the protection
of Mexico. This Is to be accomplish
ed In ruthless manner. All nna1e
Americana more than sixteen years
of age are to be killed.
Sought Martens' Aid.
A new nete on the bolshevik move
ment In Mexico came from a copy OF
a letter written by Linn Gale to L. e,
A. X. Martens. the bolshevik repre-
sentative at New York.
Knowing you are the financial
agent OF the Russian society In New
York" Gale wrote. Il take the liberty
of asking you II you can give mo
financial aid in, my propaganda In
Mexieo." HA added the explanation
that he WAS the editor of a magazine
devoted to the furth erance of radical
Ism. He explained that he went to
Mexico to evade tho Army draft, and
since then" he added. IT have estab-
iishod very close raiatipns with tho
Mexican government, which have
urged to boisheyize tho country. and
which will. I believe. do so. 1 have
besn extanded unusual help in various
ways by President CsrranEa and his
prime minister. Secretary Berianga."