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Show AMERICANS PAID TO SPREAD PIOPAffll Men Said to be Employed by Carranza and Directly or Indirectly In-directly Paid by Him SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 22, Americans in tho direct or Indirect pay of Carranza are responsible for reports re-ports of improved conditions in Mexico, Mexi-co, Henry Forres yesterday told tho senate suh-committee investigating the Mexican situation. George Weeks, editor of a weekly newspaper, was specifically indicated as one of those prominent in the dissemination of Carranza Car-ranza propaganda. "The fact is," said Forres, who returned re-turned yesterday from Mexico City where he unsuccessfully tried to have Mexicans stopped from drilling for oil on property he had leased and registered regis-tered in June, 1919. "conditions are growing worse. Carranza controls the larger towns but not the country and when he recently visited Cuatro Cieneges lie had concerted in that district dis-trict 7000 troops. Tho train on which he made the trip was escorted by n train of armored" cars filled with soldiers. sol-diers. 1 was there and saw it." Incident to the examination of Forres, For-res, Senator Smith, acting as chairman, chair-man, intimated the committoo would watch carefully the operation of the Mexican foreign office's instructions to consuls not to isc passports of those who had testified before tho committee, Additional background for a consideration consid-eration of the attompt to carry out tho "plan of San Diego," a plan to begin a revolution in the United Slates, was fixed by the testimony of two Amorican farmers who wore living liv-ing in the lower Rio Grande valley In 1915. They testified theso raids into the United States were halted only when some 60,000 American troops were brought into the district and continued con-tinued for almost a year at average intervals of two weeks. . |