The New York herald., 1920-01-23
CARRANZA AIDED
RAIDS AGAINST US.
Fall Committee Gets Docu-
mentS Showing Activity
with Reds as Well.
GERMAN SPIES ALSO HELPED
Director of Telegraphs on Payroll of
Kaiser'S Ambassador in
Mexico City.

SAN ANTONIO. Texas. Thursday
President Carranza and a few of his prin-
cipal lieutenants instigated and directed
the long series of raids on American prop
critics that began along the Rio Grande
early in 1915. according to documentary
evidence today placed before the Senate
subcommittee investigating the Mexican
situation. This was supported by testi-
mony by John A. Walls. the District At
Barnes, in charge of the United States
Army intelligence work along the border
during the war, and other witnesses.
The committee obtained from them and
from documentary evidence informa ton
purportng to show that not only were the
highest Mexican officials coenizant of the
programme Of the raidng parties, which
was carried out under the provisions OF
the plan of San Diego" but that as late
as June. 1915, they were still giving en-.
couragement TO and aiding those who par.
ticipated in these raids.
Aided German Spies.
Incidental to the taking Of Testimony
regarding the connection Of Mexican gov
" h''ShA oiiiSidiS Will lIe Dlan san
Diego further information was obtained
as to the success encountered by Germans
IN bidding FOR the sympathy and support
of Mexico during the war and the present
alleged drift toward Bolshevsm.
I. B. Altendorf, a 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 Telegra phs
in Mexico. as one of those whom Minister
Won Eckhardt kept on his payroll during
the war. Altendorf said Mendezs job was
to see that copies of all messages from
the United States bearing on military
affairs were delivered to the German dele
CATION. A new note on the Bolshevik
movement in Mexico came from a copy of
a letter written by Lin Gnle to l.. G. A. X
Martens, the Bolshevki's representative
at New York
Knowing you arc the financial agent
OF the Russian Society in New York,
Gale wrote, II take the liberty Of asking
you If you can give me financial aid in
my propag ganda in Mexico"
Gale explained that he went to Mexico
to evade the army draft, "and since then," "
he added, II have established very close
rela tons with the Mexican government
which / have urged to Bolshevize the
country and which will. I believe do so.
have been extended unusual help in
his Prime Minister. Secretary Berlanga."
Plan for Invasion.
Summarized, the plan of San Diego, a
copy Of which was read into the record,
follows:-
THE States of Texas. New Mexico, Col
orado. Arizona and California are to be
invaded simultaneously with uprisings OF
Mexican and negro citizens on the Ameri-
can side. A separate government is to be
established and remuneration to Mexico
requested 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 accomplished in a ruthless
manner. All male American more than
sixteen years of age are to be killed.
The document itself is about two thou
sand words long.
The character of the testimony developed
three phases Of the programme. the first
that which took the form of border raids
beginning in 1915, the second that held out
as a bait by the Germans in the thinner
man note, when they dangled before the
Moxican3 the prospect of recovering the
border States with the possible assistance
of Japan. The third is closely allied with
the impetus that has been given the Boil
shevilS movement, and in support of that
charge Chairman Fall announced there
would be placed before the committee evil
dence showing Carranza is yet offering
support to Augustin Cara. mentioned in
the plan of San Diego as the military
leader and the minutes OF meeting OF
anarchistic organizations in Mexico. said
to indicate The existence OF g conspiracy
20 foment labor uprisings in the United
States.