Show FEEDING rEEDING or OF POOR BECOMES PRESSING PROBlEM IN MEXICO People Flocking From Interior to Vera Cruz Where Corn Lines Are Established Galveston Tex May Ia 19 Evidence E Evidence of ot distressing economic con conditions throughout hout Mexico Is b beginning to show how In Vera era Cruz within sight of ot General Carra Carranza's zas za's headquarters according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to to p passengers rs arriving here from Vera Cruz The distribution to the poor poor of ot corn corn said one of oC these passengers passengers passengers pas pas- today toda has resulted in the formation formation formation for for- mation of corn lines where daily all hundreds hundreds hun hun- reds of oC women and children patiently wait walt for tor the scant scanty supply doled out outto outto outto to them The influx of ot persons from the Interior interior in- in augmented b by the Increased garrison gar gar- garrison ar- ar rison has swelled the normal population population tion ion of oC to more than The feeding ceding of oC so many people the overtaxIng overtaxing overtax- overtax Ing ng of or the water sy system tem and and Inadequate Inadequate quate sanitation are giving General Carranza almost as much concern as his ils efforts to push Villa back ack In the north The steady stead depreciation of oC paper issued b by the Carranza money government govern govern- ment to tn n a p where lh r it It sells 11 n. n t n rate ate t tor or of l 12 pesos t for one o n American n i a dollar d dolar dol- dol i o lar ar has helped to make prices s to the poor Joor prohibitive General Carranza rarely appears in iii public Fortified in a lighthouse feet feel cot from the ba bay and within sight of ot the he American cruiser and gunboat s usually ally lly lying off oft the harbor the first chief r remains secluded with his cabinet members General Carranza frankly says say's he has no immediate intention of oC returning to City th the moral effect the tho return might have ha among other nations His reasons for or this ho he hosay's says say's are That the people of ot Mexico City are antagonistic to him him that the city would 1 require a largo garrison which necessarily necessarily necessarily would take thousands thousand of ot his soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers from active field work that Mex- Mex leo ico co City has no military advantage that at nt Vera Cruz supplies are arc available Jablo from rom foreign countries and communication ion tion with the outside cannot be bo inter Inter- |