San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-30
MEXICO To WAR
ON |T|NERANT
SMUCCLERS
Immigrants Watched by
Federal Authorities
as Dangerous.

War on the sons Of corsairs from
the blue Mediterranean, war ON the
picturesque gypsies who, besides be-
ing smugglers are becoming prophets
Of new mystic faith, the Assyrian-
Chaldean. is being declared by Mex
leo.
The secretary of state has directed
communications to the governors of
Sonora and Sinaloa, where the gypsy
tide of immigration is strongest, or
dering state authorities to watch i'm
migrant activities carefully and TO re-
woke passports and credentials in Ger.
tain cases, authorizing deportation.
Mexican federal authorities first
received information from diplomatic
sources in Cuba, advising them that
among the immigrants were propa-
gandists of mystic faith, as well us
several gypsies who had been deported
once before. With different pre-
texts. the dispatches stated, these
gypsies gather money in Mexico and
send it to foreign sources.
\ Several state authorities say these
gypsies are responsible for most of the
border smuggling.
Streams of gypsies, with their for.
tune teflers, polychromatic sibyls,
dirty hays and crying children, who
come from the ports of the Mediter.
ranean in doubtful tramp ships, and
who are as rapacious as crows, arc
flowing into Mexico.
Names such as Jonas Constantine,
Juan Simon, Gregorio Dfmitri, Hanna
Hassan, Ella Gourcil, Jonatas Daniel,
Servanda Eadal, are evident of a
mixed Observation-Disclosures
Indian and Saracen descent, a mix
ture on Leyantine base.
These gypsies know the secrets Of
Calabria, have overrun the Darda,
nelles and the Aegean seas. Amonf
their ancestors are the famous Is
mad the Corsair, Daniel the Terrible
all the heroes painted in the old 70,
fnances of piracy, which ended with
the stupendous invasions into Dutch
French, English and Spanish ship
ping.
They are the last vestiges of those
y cosfnopolite crews which under the
Scorsair half-moon flag secured the
Mediterranean, and after staining even
theccoasts of Malaga with blood, would
fly under all sail back to the piers
of Stambpul, under Moorish protec'
ton.
Now, In Mexico, prophets of a new
faith, the Assyrian- Chaldean, which
accepts the Nazarene religion, not as
presented in the New and Old Tesla
ments. but under novel aspect, that
Of mastery Of astrology and geomancy,
are holding mystic rites.
Among these immigrants, the diplo-
matte note alluded to above. are Jonas
Constantine. patriarch of the As
syrian-C haldean religion, who year
ago was deported with the following
acolytes. Abraham Yourno, Daniel
Benjamin. Gayo Breckham, Necko
: Gebroc, Zacharias Gilyana. Khnmo
Armishu, Ibey Sheron, Zalla Colo
: and Azam Nazer.
State authorities allege these gyp-
sizes are masters Of the art Of SNUG
Cling. They work with veritable re.
ligious fervor, quoting the philosophy
of Calico between forays.
~ 1t Is said that a federal authority
catching an old gypsy woman with
some contraband. asked her how II
was she could smuggle when she be-
lieved in such moral doctrines.
The old woman answered with the
classic response Of Jesus when He en-
tered Jerusalem.
'Render unto Caesar those things
which are Caesars and render unto
God those things which are Gods,
she said
'But Caesar in this case is rep,
; resented by the customs collector
replied the deputy. not without wit.
iThose things inspire such respect
we prefer not to think about them, >
the old woman said.