Show CHIHUAHUA BUT GHOST Of r fORMER SELf t I Almost Every Foreign W Wt Woman Woman Wo Wo- t man and Child Has Left City r r AFFAIRS MUCH WORSE THAN YEAR AGO Mines and Smelters Closed Employees Turned Adrift Become Bandits CHIHUAHUA Mexico March 15 Via Via El Paso Paso Although Although General PasQual Pasqual Pasqual Pas Pas- Orozco is maintaining order here hero i the city l In respect to its foreign interests in in- ij is but a I. I ghost of oC its former Cormer thriving self But a a. h handful of oC foreigners remain Practically every overy woman and child chUd has been sent to the safety of oC Am American soil The exodus of oC Mexicans has been great A year ago few fow Americans thought it necessary to send scud out even the women and children A year ago foreigners were opposed to talk of intervention By word and aud deed they used every effort to discourage discourage age the spread pread of or such sentiment Today Today To To- day they are arc a a. unit in declaring that intervention must come sooner or later No Xo foreigner in Mexico dares to al allow allow allow al- al low himself to be quoted for publication tion but their comment is the thc same It lilt Jots does not matter now who becomes president of Mexico Jhc they declare ri Whether it is Madero adero Diar Diaz Trevino Cr Creel cl or De La L Barra the re result will he continued turmoil Always l as there therez z will m be dissatisfied cd leaders to start new revolts revolt and hor hordes cs of oE peons to whom the campaign with th its accompanying and amI loot is comparative I J luxury to follow them is the general way 11 of analyzing the situation Intervention Must Come It C It is only a question of how many lives s must IT be sacrificed and anti ho how man many millions of dollars lost before foreign sentiment is aroused to the pitch where 7 intervention rill mil bo be demanded b by influence influence in in- fluence too troD f strong to resist said one American tt whose hoa e words word accurately accurately- reflected re reo re- re fleeted the sentiments of a score of others o with whom the Associated Press correspondent ont tal talked k d the th situation situational at al pr present nt ha hall not reached that stage the Ameri Ameri- American can cnn continued d The property loss alir already al- al ir ready ady has run Into the th millions but Co for for- orners or- or el ners ner hR have not yet et been n slain Th They have suffered d In Insult and annoyance and have hR been compelled to fire r the th country countr hut ut thO they escaped whit their lives A year r ago afro C feeling between Mexicans Mexican and for for- or- or 11 1 comparatively Clr friendly This cannot be Bal 11 l 1 now no The COlel foreigners erA are arc weary wears of oC helm being constantly looted of financial loss loan and listening It to Insults In which filch th they y tare dare not re resent nt There RI are few of oC us u who would not abandon the time timer country and Dud all 11 If IC It could be done without with with- r 1 3 out ut financial run ruin Thriving City Ruined r The closing of oC ho vast YARl properties of or the American and compan company com com- pan pany at t el nl nR Is Iy merely a fo foretaste y if Ir what must mU come Ili here Hr i was Wf a thriving hu city of or 1 JOO 00 p persons e all dependent upon the the n of lime the three thre three mines the twenty seven kilometer of railroad and ami the i smelter Th rh y r must live Mont Moat of oC the men and boys bc ya will Join any An hand band of ln that promises food This Thin Is 18 particularly tn trite tnie sear par R an as practically no nt crops w were rA rals raised last year jear far after the th Madero ro revolution It Is 18 doubtful If IC supplies I g can enn reach oth outer other r properties s of tho time smelting company for Cor long Driblets are arp reaching thorn them In In- II Should I oil ell 11 of oC them then do close e as they will have hl to soon noon with the continuance continuance ance of or present condition men on no whose work ork O OM persons persona depend for R. R livelihood will be bp thrown put of or work ork The same ame conditions apply app to other ruining mining Inter interests fi to the vast oil properties and nd other enterprises |