Show MEXICO HELP TO SPIES Cf ARG D Carranza Officials Filch U. U I S 'S S. S l Ie Messages i sages on Line S Vh e Js Is CI Claim l n RT Py Universal 1 Service San Antonio Texas Jan IS Army Arm Army telegraph raph wires were tapped lapped b by Carranza Carranza Carranza Car Car- ranza officials In charge on the Mexican I can side of the BI Big Bend district on the Texas border during the war with G German Germany erma mu y Information to this effect Is In the I hands of the Senate subcommittee I holding hearings here lucre it became beme known toda today When questioned as to the value of or ortho tho the Incident to the Investigating In committee committee com corn n ns throwing light on the tho attitude atti attl- Jud tude of or tho the Carranza government o SenatOr SenatOr Senator Sen Sen- ator Marcus farcus Smith sal said that Us Its RIg sig would depend a a. great reat deal upon the tim time when the incident oc- oc anti and whether tho the Information obtained In this manner was supplied to German spies then operating In Mex Mex- ico leo The time when the discovery was made of or a wiro wire leading leading- from the army wire across tho the river to the tho office of or ofa ora a Mexican official is known from other Con Continued on pa page e 2 2 MEXICO HO HELP TO TOIS SPIES IS CHARGED Continued from Pago Page 1 sources to lo have been during durine the tIie year car 1917 Considerable troop movements mo were wore then taking place along the border border bor bor- der and Information as to tho the number and equipment of troops being held here for tor tho the purpose ot of guarding the border Is believed to have been of considerable considerable con con- sl crable value to Germany German Before Defore the point of or cont contact ct of the tap wire with the arm army wire was found the line line- entering the river rl was itself tapped it was learned to today a and a fake fale message sent t over O tho the arm army wire Tho message was received recel b by the In Investigators Investigators In- In over o the tap wire wiro which en en entered the tho office of or a a. Mexican official south of oC the river rl whence a direct wire with Mexico City was connected |