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 permitted to resign from the Army Intelligence Service to become a press agent of the National Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico. The "revelations" themselves were put out with what amounted to an endorsement of the Intelligence Department. General Churchill was represented as vouching for the "trustworthiness" of Altendorf, and the Department as "confirming" his story.

Upon the War Department also lies the responsibility for the wide circulation of a map, representing the enemies of the Mexican Government as controlling more than one-half of Mexico. According to this map, practically the whole of the State of Chihuahua, including the cities of Chihuahua and Juarez, is in the hands of the Villistas; nearly all of Sonora, including the port of Guaymas, is in the hands of the Yaqui Indians; nearly all of Oaxaca, including the city of Oaxaca and the port of Salina Cruz, is in the hands of Felicistas and Meixuerio; a great part of the States Tamaulipas and Vera Cruz, including the port of Tampico, is in the hands of Felicistas and Pelaez; and nearly all of Lower California is in rebellion under Cantu.

The War Department surely knows—and nearly every newspaper which published this lying map surely knows—that it is four years since the Villistas were in possession either of Chihuahua City or Juarez, that the Yaqui Indians have never been in possession of Guaymas, that Carranza has for nearly four years been in continuous possession of Salina Cruz and Oaxaca, that neither Pelaez nor the Felicistas have ever been in possession of Tampico; that it has been at least three years since the tale that Cantu was in rebellion against Carranza was exploded.

The promoters and organizers of the National Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico have made it very clear that they feel assured that the decisive Government action which they decline to term intervention awaits only a properly prepared public opinion.

 

17.

THE SOLUTION OF THE MEXICAN "PROBLEM"

However well one may understand the motives of Wall Street, so long as he misunderstands the motives of the 