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Show Hp THOUSANDS LIVING I ' " ON FAMINE RATIONS I1! J ? Families Forced to Subsist For Threo HJ. i Day8 -n a poUnti of corn Hit i 'or Beans Hj' ' Puchla.'fcloxlco, Juno 30, by mall to Hf ' Now Orleans, 'July C An Investlga- i Uon of food conditions In the Inter- HE ' . , lor ofjMerlco, outside of Mexico City Hf Indicates that whllo pcoplo nro not Hi ; actually starving In great numbers, HJ' , many .thousands aro living virtually HJ on famkno rations, whllo tho misery HJ' of tho poorer classes Is perhaps more HJ i Intonso than over beforo In the coun- HJ j try's history. HJ Villages and In boiiio Instances (It- HJ '' lea nro cut off from supplies. Tribes HJ I1 of Indians who onco thrived In tho Ha i mounta'ns, whoso farms hnvo been HB i wrecked by bandits, havo (looked (o HI j tho settlements, adding to Mio Ulfll- HK ' cultles o authorities who aro trying HR i to dovlso means of providing for tho HJ sufferers, Hft' Death duo to IiiBiilllclent nutrition Bt Is reported among tho poor women HB nnd children In tho cities and bun- BB t dreds of thousands of families aio BBJ living on an ltttlo as a poind of can HK . J or beans distributed to thu mnot c t- HB" tencr than onco In threo days. Bflf ' I Principal reasons for famine condl- HB j tlons throughout southern Moxico HB HB j Hallroad transportation everywhere Bt' Is demoralized, nolthcr tho Carruv.t HB ; ,i nor th Zapata forces being abio to Bjj p u . ' i control trafllc. HBpf ' ' Farms, largo nnd small stores of BBJ" ' foodstuffs as exist In tho cities nt o HB ( commandeered by military fact ons or BH( 1 held by military leaders for specula-HB |