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Show each under command of a major general, gen-eral, for the purpose of conducting the operations. Unfortunately the Mexican regular army is composed in great part of former bandits and it has been so far impossible for their officers to'hold 'them in check when an opportunity to raid presents itself. These fellows will have to be weeded out before the bandits ban-dits can be rounded up and it will be a difficult job. What a world of wealth would have flowed into Mexico as a result of the world war had the people down there been civilized enough to make the most of their natural advantages. advan-tages. It is not entirely too late for these people to prosper if they will go to work. The Coahuila harvest shows what can be done. FOOD IN SIGHT. According to a dispatch from Eagle Pass, Tex., the biggest wheat crop in many years is being harvested in the state of Coahuila. Mexico. It is a shame' that all the arable laud in Mexico Mex-ico is not being made to produce foodstuffs food-stuffs at the present time when so many million people in the world are on short rations while millions of others are in a starving condition. Even in Mexico some of the people are starving aud raids over the boundary line result. One year of hard work in Mexico would go far toward placing the republic upon its feet. The natural resources of the country are almost limitless and there are millions of acres of good farming and grazing land. Yet many of the Mexicans prefer to become bandits rather than work for a living and there does not -appear to be any hope for the country until this detestable breed is exterminated. Quite recently it was announced that the work of extermination extermina-tion would soou begin, the country having hav-ing been divided into six military zones. |