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Show PLAN PROBE OF NEW YORK RUMORS WASHINGTON", D?c. 29. Reports alleged al-leged to have been circulated early this month in New York by the Mexican consulate con-sulate there that "President Wilson ir Secretary Lansing paid the necessary bail money to have the American consular pgent, W. O. Jenkins, released from the puehla (Mexico) jail." will be investigated investi-gated by the seriate foreign relations subcommittee sub-committee inquiring into Mexican affairs, it was announced tonight by Francis J. Kr.arfut, cou rise! for the subcommittee. Secretary Lansing, when his attention was cafhd tor: i gbt to the alleged reports, re-ports, declared the "whole story was absolutely ab-solutely ridiculous." Tho secretary in commenting on another alleged Mexican consulate report that he had conferred with Hansen before the latter , left for Mexico, said be did not. know Hansen and had not even heard of him until reports re-ports to the state department carried the information that it was ho who had furnished fur-nished Jenkins's bail. |