Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-03 | Page 1 | Germans Back Mexican War on U. S; is Charge

GERMANS BACK MEXICAN WAR ON U. SMJSCHARGE New Arrest in Passport Frauds Results in Disclosures Dis-closures Long Known in Washington. HUERTA'S DETENTION DUE TO COMPLICITY Effort Made to Turn Both the Carranza and Villa Forces Against This . vuuiury. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. Develop nients more sensational than those growing grow-ing out of the case of James F. ,T. Archi bald, which has already resulted in the recall of Dr. Dumba, the Austrian embassador, em-bassador, may be expected from the arrest ar-rest of Andrew D. Meloy in New York. The alleged passport frauds in which Meloy is charged with being implicated and other matters about which he is said to be well informed are now be ing investigated by the grand jury in New York City upon information gathered gath-ered by the department of .justice. It may be stated upon high authority that the investigations of the department depart-ment of justice have led to these dis closures: , That German money has been used in Mexico and in the United States to foment trouble and embroil the United States in war with Mexico. Huerta in the Plot. That German money waa back of the revolution President Huerta recently attempted to start and that his campaign cam-paign presumably waa to have been financed fi-nanced by Franz Rintelin, German agent, companion of Meloy, who is now under detention in England by the British Brit-ish government. That the discovery of German funds and their source was the chief factor mat icu lo nuerta 5 arresr ana conrine-ment conrine-ment in a Texas military post. That Rintelin personally or through his representatives attempted to deal with both military factions in Mexico, but more particularly with the Villistas, in his effort to drag this government into the trouble and force armed intervention. inter-vention. Prominent Men Involved. That at least two men of prominence in Washington are involved in this plan to embarrass the United States. They acted as representatives of the German government or Rintelin to such an ex- (Continued on Page Fourteen.) GERMANS INTRIGUE IN MEXICAN AFFAIRS (Continued from Page One.) tent that their activities may be brought to the attention of the grand jury. That Frank Bintelin was under surveillance sur-veillance by' department of justice 1 agents from the time or nis arrival m this country last April until his depar-I depar-I ture for Europe early last August on j the Noordam, and that practically all I his acts during that time are known to the department of justice. Rintelin is known to be a retired captain cap-tain in the German army and one of the prominent bankers of 'Germany. He has visited this country various times on various errands in which the German government was interested, his latest visit being for the specific purpose of stirring up trouble in Mexico, according to the investigations that have been made. j Conspiracy Revealed. In pursuit of this Rintelin Endeavored I to operate through Felix Sommerfield, a German "Villa agent in New York City. It was through the testimony of Sommerfield Som-merfield before the New York grand jury yesterday that many of the facts discovered by the department of justice were brought to the attcnion of the grand jury. 1 The department of justice will not admit that Rintelin told Sommerfield of his plans to spend German money to embroil the United States, although the fact that Sommerfield refused to have anything to do with Rintelin is well known at the department:. It also was apparent today from thp guarded state mcnts of officials of the department that tin' character of the evidence that ' Sommerfield would give to the gTand ! jurv was known to them. The department believes it has a strong case against Meloy and those i who worn associated with him in the j alleged passport frauds. It can be ! stated that officers of the department ' believe that the developments growing out of the Irial of this case wut show j that very little in connection with the activities of the agents of the European, belligerents has escaped the government govern-ment and that nil the important at- tempts to violate the neutrality laws of the United States have been frus- t rated.