Show rebels now rule half of mexico official information shows carranza B barely arely clings to control over rest boday nt at its be maximum strength it Is nil army 0 id id and dan poorly equipped d or 0 azg this a a arav mv n large pro pre peru portion n in 1 held in A or near 0 alt 11 11 9 ill the remainder numbering to acis than a full fill division dai di i according to tile the american imant tion to iff guard gourd and nai ninin supremacy 1 in the atme states of elo im acon eastern south ern em damage Hild hildago sion so ann I 1 ants A CA joel mc topic 7 goerrcro Guerr cro eb om fee collon chiapas compeer at T tabasco e braco quinlan quintana ron boo and the bait d er arn n or A atlantic au edge of ad in the state of I 1 r era C cru whirl which territory or on paper re at I 1 order ander federal control the big transcontinental stretch of rebel controlled territory which aver up more a than miles in width and it which for an unbroken barrier from see acena to ocean area completely separates the federal controlled states let of the menth benin chiala yutan yu Tn tan alan term tabasco co part of vera cruz and quin tann in ron rea from the states or parts of states over which bih carranza carnes still holds hold sway may 1 in the north earth villa forces strongest of the organized red opposition lineups groups which lire are beeking king to overthrow car ranya most powerful Is that which 1 I operating in chihuahua and neigh boring baring states fates under angeles angelea and villa th alie as this force farm 1 Is pope larla it known 1 Is not dot the unorganized poorly equipped and undisciplined force that a great rally many people in this country think it I 1 Is it I 1 la on no the other band probably the best organized and equipped military organization organisation in mexico I 1 it numbers number 10 men on coar command d I 1 PI py by angeles the french trained rebel leader with till villa vill second 1 in win corn mand d it Is well equipped with rifles and la old to h have am R well wall team organ particle parti I 1 iced artillery arm and ad the Vil lists ry fir fire tile the bp be t ammunition which as a rule rude 1 Is american made and is smug aled across the rio grande by gun runners I 1 ahe I 1 he ang angeles e villa forces are today pea practically ct leally in n control of the entire laate of chihuahua a large part of D du range the eastern micro part of simon and it the western part of calvit carranza a a own state let of cochulla coahulla Coa hulla huila the one pa part t of chihuahua that A an act belea and ad 11 villa 4 do not control central Is the th border city of juarez juaree opposite el E paso and they would today be in possession of nf that much needed border port but for the fact that they brought about ke american rilan intervention in their plans plan b bv bring over 11 the border into the texas city tile the americans did not go to juarez to help carranza as some mine per peo pie think but solely for the purpose of safeguarding the h a it lives air of americans americana 0 on afi tee ills he torras side e of the rio grande thi the next more ore important rebel f force ree in n mexico to Is that under men corn amed of manuel prime who dominates dominate the oil producing regions of the tarn tam P pico count country pele be has under his him romauld 3 bell oll Intuit sed ed mail and fair ly velt ell equipped men tile the value of abo foreign to reign oil lots interests r t in the m 1 territory I in 11 which adae Is olve operating rating Is in at more inore than peters Is said eald to be pro ally in wart merit benl enl and ml to 11 this 1 Is ins due in large part the ignore failure of the germans and their sympathizers to gain control of the oil all fields while the european euredean war was as actively under mailer way allies like under guillermo amrix alo in the late ate of oaxaca la is another rebel form force of several everal thousand well organized mD men carter carranza has made desperate but ineffectual efforts to dislodge metz meix abria nho he Is easily one as of af his him most at tested feared opponents an and it wh whose ile r record 1 Is such a of to win min the sympathetic approval of the allies met erlo Is 11 a full blooded Za potee a lawyer r and A it a man of fine ed education next in importance among the rebel groin groups a Is that commanded by felix dip danz under diaz according to oell all information there are amich me men th the dine forces force he however or unlike those under older P ie rieS ADjo angeles and erm are looley loosely or gemind and are said t to be in great t need ot of ammunition n and other war re ma feltt this despite e handicap how e ever the ai a the da alny rob reb ors els are known continue to be a form force bonfi ad nil all the offer efforts of to break up the on organization l d he have ve failed the I 1 are arc operating 1 in the state of pa 8 in the north and in part of dida go puebla and vera cru in the south seuth the southern there F fo avista arm area forms forma the center unit link in the rebel ocean aman barrier tile the state of morelos and small mail paris of at the states of mexico and guerrero form it lie arm area in which the famous are end and have liae been trip in for the last seven henrs I 1 A As for cantu in lower california the situation there them can be dismissed with a word it cantu Is in absolute control of that part of mexico and curran IP 19 making no effort to ie interfere eter fore with the independent state t that coal cantu be has et at up smuggle A arm me in the seventh of carranza a troubles trouble A are the yaqui of western be sonora they are 1 operating 1 in bandit groups and number probably serer several th thousand led like the Vil listas they are voted armed and ormi equipped ed bv b smuggling mg ilg from the united states m I 1 a the 1 are am brieg BIT on g the imode hardest and nd b rt best fig fighters h it 1 in evl mexico and little if any 7 effort affo la being made ads arm by the federal a government 1 to 0 rest restore ear order in that part of S sonora 0 a under their dorai domination natio lastly the bandits official reports report pm prove that everywhere in mexico merile the a outlaw be bands nd are am to be fe fondd A ad their A number b la unknown li but or they are am I 1 powerful ful enough to hold the attention alwer of a ce considerable part of Ca carrangas Carran mn zas I 1 evil ard pressed little regular army of 60 ODO in men briefly briefly what precedes gives give the line up AD of the factions that or anre fighting for far control at of mexico here are some borne of the facts officially officials established that have reau resulted ltd from from the country wide int internecine earmine strife tri in moslem mexico ec economically no mexico 1 Is in ID the eat midst dat of a crisis which la Is characterized b th the intense poverty and the actual w want am t of the great mass of the people th the morale mis of the a population if ever everywhere kisr was vas never lower than at the present time the general hea health of the pith people of Is everywhere bad c cattle t t Is retain the principal industry of t the b e a nation 1 I Is m today only about ten per cent of f what it was aas in 1914 of all mexican 1 in destries the growing of lonelier alone an shows how pro progress rose all textile factories mills and nd sugar mills with a few exceptions are out of business and ad thus those that are am operating are run do down and 1 in need of repair practically all of the coun con arv a 16 miles of railroads tire demoralized zed or overrated destroyed as a result of rebel and bandit activity not net a cent at of interest has haa been bar paid on the national foreign tie dam in more mom than five years more than 75 par cent of the papa loll 1011 bailon 1 18 now ab ita illiterate the nati national I 1 credit im gone and the for agn e agn oil interests are despite the apparent friendly attitude of pat menaced t As an n indication of 01 t the 11 1 becat t health of th the people ve P intent vit w reports P oft es the yearly death rate I 1 in mexico city Is 21 while the reported birth ime is only 1500 7 it 1 Is believed h how lov giant let eer that ta a correct act car census would show how a larger birth rate although the 1 Is official e A at t t the h present time alt all reliable re P porta art coming out of idal mexico huli indicate hulite te the precarious condition of the carran ye im a government carter carranza be has been eula the pest past thres three years prod probably Y gis most t pro German head of a state late tac in the w western e stern hemisphere aps ops openly ii pro por german until recently his attitude has been odfrie unfriendly A illy to the united states and 11 alien hen he thought though t gem germany s y we was win ning he be made no efforts to cone conceal I his hia dmn sim sympathy pathy for tile the a legola tion that mom as passed during the war or no which we was directed mial against t the aled oil holdings it in the coun try I 1 Is generally believed bel leid in private as well ell as metal circles to have been umpired in inspired by german interests and rp rip enta tives 1 in M ac protests ih this is lex legislation islat to have bers been filed by bv the american british and french ghou gareia indents out steve since he developed his him antl oil nn an attitude C carrenza cranza has tanned fanned his up porters with mith the slog slogan of let latin american america solidarity I 1 mima the great northern rep republic and it led the must mot b ene 11 do developed clofed treat trait in A till the ran nm dority of vieri mexicans in fed federal controlled aam territory Is that of f antl all |