Bisbee daily review., 1920-01-23
CARRANzA AIDS
 LINE RAIDERS
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 only were the highest Mexican off cials cosniZant of the raiding parties which was carried out under the pro visions of the plan of San Diego" but that as late as June. 1915, they were still giving encouragement to and aid ing those who participated in those raids in plans in local use.
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 Incident to the taking of testimony regarding Mexican government off cials' connection with the plan Of San Diego" further information was obtained as to the success encoun- tered by Germans in bidding for the sympathy. and support of Mexico dur ing the war and the reported present drift toward bolshevism. T. B. Alten- dorf, a Pole, who was in the intelIi- gence service of the American army during the war and who was largely responsible for the arrest of the Ger man spy. Witstke, now a prisoner at Fort Sam Houston Texas, was placed on the witness stand to identify Mario Mendez, the director of telegraphs in Mexico. as one of those whom Minis ter vOn Eckhardt kept on his payroll during the war. Altendorf said Men deZ's job was to see that copies of all messages from the United States bearing on military affairs were de livered to the German legation. A new note on, the boIshevik movement in Mexico came from copy of letter written by Linn Gale to l.. C. A. K Martens, the bolshevik representative in New York.
 "Knowing you are financial agent of the Russian soviet in New York" Gale wrote, T take the liberty of asking you if you can give me financial aid in my propaganda in Mexico" He added the explanation that he was the editor of a magazine devoted to the maintenance of radicaIism He@ex- plained that he went to Mexico to evade the army draft, and since then" he added, q have established very close relations with the Mexican government, which l have urged to bolshevize the country and which will, 1 believe, do so. have been extended unusual help in various ways by Presi- dent Carranza and his prime minister, Secretary Berlanga"
 Summarized, tEe plan of san Diego, d copy of which was read into the rec ord, follow:
 "The states of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and California are to be invaded simultaneously with uprisings of Mexican and negro citi- Zens on the American side sepa- rate government is to be established and remuneration to Mexico request ed. Six other States contagious to this territory are to be carved out of the United States to be formed into negro republic under the protection of Mexico. This is to be accomplished in ruthless manner All male Amer i jeans more than Is years of age are to be killed" -ilJ 'l64iili
 The character of the testimony de veloped three phases on the program: the first, that which took the form of | border raids beginning in 1915; the l second. that held out as a bait by the ! Germans in the Zimmerman note l which they dangled before the Mexi- 1 cans. The prospect of recovering the i border states with the possible assist | ance of the Japanese suggested, and | the present, styled in the committee's | record. "the recrudescent plan" The 1 third is closely allied with the i'm ! petus that has been given the bolshe viE government and in support of that charge Chairman Fall announced there would be placed before the com | mittee evidence showing Carranza is ! yet offering to support Augustin Gar | ga, mentioned in the plan of San Diego i as the military leader, and the min !. utes of a meeting of anarchistic or ganiZations in Mexico that indicate the existence of a conspiracy to fo- | ment labor uprisings in the United States.
 Judge Walls was the attorney who | prosecuted the cases of few of the i MeXicans captured in raids across the ! border near Brownsville. They were | members of the raiding parties that destroyed bridges near Webb station | and raided San Ignace. Four of these i were convicted and sentenced to sion by the court of appeals. which held that they conld not be punished | since the evidence showed that Mex i ico and the United States were at that time Tin state of war"
 Military prisoners, therefore. the | men were turned over to the military authorities, who in turn delivered i them to Mexico. Judge Walls placed ! before the committee documentary l evidence indicating that Mexican off ] cials were cognizant of the raiders | plan and that the recruiting of the parties had been openly conducted at Monterey, Nuevo Leon and Victoria. [ He told the committee that Lieut. |