Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1920-01-28
SENATORS HEIR7
CARRANzA'S P|
Committee Told of Me,i,,.
man Plan for War.
CONSPIRACY AGAINST F.,
RaIding Parties Had ApDro,.,
Government at Mexico c NV. = :
mans Found Svr,,.l y
Support Durino III. W. '''

San Antonio. Tex. Jan .,
"a and a few Of his nrinola,,
ants instigated and directed g| a. .'
series of raids On Anqr ica 'ae
ties that began along rba pt, =
early in 1915, according 70 ,''S ~ vi
tary evidence placed bpforn " 1''l
subcommittee investigating tbo N
can situation. ''
rms was supported by testino,
John A. Walls, the district .t tt,1.
brownsville, Tex; L. R. Ro,,a'
charge of the United States o,~1
telligence work aloug the bor1a.
ing the war, and other Witnesses
The committee obtained from u
and from documentary evidence n
nation tending to show that not
were the highest Mexican Officials
infant Of the program of the ni
parties, but that as late as Jppo n
they were still giving ENCOURAGES
to and aiding those who particIDstAl
those raids in plans inimcal IA
United States.
Germans Found Sympathy
Incident to the taking of tesinA
regarding connection of Mexican 4
eminent officials with the raids
Their information was obtained a,
the success encountered by GemI
in bidding for the sympathy and I
port of Mexico during the war and I
present drift toward bOlSheyism.
T. B. Altendorf, a Pole, who Vaa
the intelligence service of the And
can army during the war and who 4
largely responsible for the arrest
the German spy, Witske, now
oner at Fort Sam Houston, Tex, 4
placed on the witness stand
enough to identify Mario Mendez
director of teelgraphs in Mexico as
of those whom Minister Won Eckhl
kept on his pay roll during the wa
Altendorf said Mendez'S job Vai
see that copies of all messages
the United States bearing on mall
affairs were delivered to the Ge1l
legation.
Martens Busy in Mexico
A new note on the bOlShevlE nq
ment in Mexico came from copy
letter written by Linn Gale TO L.
K. Martens, the bolshevihs dlpI07
ic representative at New YORK.
"Knowing you are the Hnal
agent of the Russian society ID
York" Gale wrote, Il take the lO
of asking you if you can gI's
financial aid in my prOpa5alu'
Mexico"
He added the explanation ln
was the editor of a magazine d9
to the furtherance Of radlcal.sl
explained that he went to Mckee
evade the army draft 'and
then" he added, q have esiaos
very close relations with the I'l
government. which l urged 70 ~
VIE the country, and when "4
Iieve. do so. I have been ezlenaS !.
ns,,a1 heIp in various ways by
dent Carranza and his prime inll'
Secretary Berlanga.
carranza Helping Soviet
The character of the testlIlpl'
velo me three phases of the p1o.l
the first that which took ne ~:
border raids beginning III -, i,I h.
second that held out as a ball y
Germans in the Zimmerman DAD
when they tangled before .. as
cans the prospect Of rec ,,sIs ID {.
border states with the po''iO .5'o
once Of Japan suggested, and 4, p. ~
emit. styled in the COMMITTEES
"the recrudescent plan 49,, rtb
I'll The third is closely allied E y.
impetus that has been given s5,, ,@
shevik movement and in D, s aaacrs
that charge Chairman Fan an. aI fbp d
there would be placed OeL ,ootne 4
m Mite the minutes of a nf ,,lr.st
organization in h .sn,1n
indicate the existence Of a J.. 't tbs
TO foment labor uprisinss IL
ed States.