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Show BOLSHEVIK SECURE ARMSJNMEX1G0 UNDERGROUND LINE DISCLOSED BY INVESTIGATIONS CONDUCTED BY GOVERNMENT. Mexican Consul General at New York in Touch With Russian Radicals and Other Aliens of Red Tendencies. Washington. Disclosures of large orders for arms and ammunition placed by Mexico in Europe were followed Friday by revelations tending to show that the "reds' underground line" from soviet Russia to the United States runs by way of Mexico. It became known that the immigration immigra-tion sendee and the department of justice both are concerned at the influx in-flux of Russian radicals and other aliens of "red" tendencies over the Mexican border. Furthermore, government gov-ernment agents have traced much red propaganda over the Mexican line. A letter written October 23 by Ramon Ra-mon P. de Negri, Mexican consul gen- eral in New York, to Flavia Borquez, a Mexican senator, endorsing the principle prin-ciple .of "nationalization" has come into the hands of the government and already has been called to the attention atten-tion of the state department by at least two senators as showing De Negri's association witli "radical socialists" in the United States. In the opinion of officials here, the publication of De Negri's letter may lead to an embarrassing situation. It is known that the senatorswho called the attention of Secretary Lansing to it recommended cancellation of the consul general's exequatur. Government investigators have reported re-ported that radicals seemed to have been first attracted to Mexico by certain cer-tain so-called "ultra-modern" provisions provi-sions of the new consritcition. De Negri, Ne-gri, in his letter, writes that "only Russia by nationalizing lands has gone further than we have." |