Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-01-23
By Morning journal Special Leased wlre)

the border and that the Mexican
officer promised to send a force to
intercept them. The evidence in
court, the witness testified, showed
ithat ii was the same commander
who led the bandits that same
night on their raid. Niceford Zam-
brano, of Monterey. then treasurer
general of Mexico, Marce Mende2,
director general of telegraphs. Gen
eral Emilio Narafete, General For
tunato Zuazua and General Juan
Barragan are the names of men
given by Walls as those mentioned
in the trial of the raiders as con-
nected with the plan. Aniceto
Piano and Luis De La Rosa were
named by him as the most active of
the leaders in the field.
Carranza Activities.
What is taken as some evidence
that Carranza was backing the plan
in 1915 and 1916 is contained in a
report to the state department
which was made part of the
committees record The report is
the statement of a man used by the
principals in working out their orr
gani2ation and program, He said
he was sent to Jesus Acuna, the
minister of gobernacion, by Eliseo
Arredondo, then Carran2a's S ambas-
sador designate in Washington, for
Instructions. Acuna sent him to
General Zuazua, who was main
tanning an office in Mexico City in
the same building with Agustin
Gar2a, alias Limo Cahallo. They
discussed with him frankly, he
said, the carrying out of the plan
of San Diego or "the Texas revo-
mtion," as ii was also referred to
by them. He was asked by them to
assist in raising funds for the work.
The author of the statement said
he asked if Carranza knew of this
plan and was told that part was
all fixed and that any commission
which they issued me IN connection
with the plan of san Diego, pre-
ample protection Acuna advised
me to accept"
One Jap Active.
An incidental connection of
japanese with the attempt to put
into effect the plan Of san Diego
was indicated in the statement.
pablo Nago." the assumed name
OF Japanese. was used as a got
between by General Zuazua and,
according to the document. seven
or eight Japanese officers We're
participants in a raid near Browns
vile. Nago was given as the au-
thority for the statement that they
were called away from the Organi-
2ation by the Japanese minister at
Mexico City, who threatened them
with forfeiture of rank II they re-
fused. Their accounts of their part
in the raids as told by Nago APP
pear to indicate their deep disap-
pointment with the military tactics
employed.
They told him, he said. Maurillio
Rodriguez, the nephew of Carran-
"a, who was leading the party,
failed to cross the river and they
escaped back to the Mexican side
only by swimming, remaining sub.
merged the greater part of the
time, breathing through cane joints
they had procured from the north
ern bank.
Gonzales Implicated.
The alleged relationship of Gen
eral Pablo Gonzales, now candt-
date for the presidency of Mexico,
to the plot was indicated in the
statement by the declaration that
on one occasion Augustin CARA
and General Zuazua obtained from
him 10000 pesos and $1,000 in
American gold. The American
money, Cara said, was intended
for an American negro, who had
been hired to instigate a mutiny by
the negro troops on the border.
Marce Mendez, whose name ap-
pears repeatedly in the statement,
was credited with having offered
its author a commission to Obtain
in the United States TOT
dynamite certain places in THIS
country. That was during the wa.
The writer said that Xuazua and
$50 soldiers left Mexico city, May
"a, 1915, for the north. His men
were those who had volunteered /
for the Texas revolution, he added.
others already having been sent
north on passes furnished by Gen
eral Barragan. A little later De
La Rosa and others who had re-
ported to General Zuazua left
Mexico City for Monterey. The
writer said that when he reminded
De La Rosa of the risk he was
running he replied that he AMI
fifty men had keut 5000 Americans
soldiers busy for several months
and had not lost man."