MEXICAN HORRORS.
BANDITS' VICTIMS TORTURED.
TROOPS EQ_TA-___Y GUILTY. (Received 0.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 10. i Agnes Laut, a woman journalist, who has been investigating conditions in Mexico, giving evidence before a committee of tbe Senate, stated that conditions in the Republic were appalling. She asserts that American women were car- j ried off by bandits and tortured. One ! .American farmer was tied to a tree and stabbed until he became insane. Women j captives were held at the mercy oi the j bandits, while Mexican troops were equally guilty.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) OIL COMPANY'S PLOT. WASHINGTON, September 10. Mr. Debekker, a journalist, giving evidence before the committee of the Senate which is investigating conditions in Mexico, asserted that the Mexican Petroleum Co. is plotting to bring about American intervention in Mexico and that every oil company in Mexico is implicated. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 221, 17 September 1919, Page 7
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