Show HAS ONLY TR TROOPS president Pret ident 1 I too weak to keep order as a bandit hand whole claim country t rv industry snuffed out and d morale at L low ebb i new york the mexican problem we was never I 1 me more toAb lc condl tlona in ID that resolution racked land u mere ere never neer more ere c than th they p y are nr bodny day C carranca Car b ranya now w controls little n ore thin one tin half it of mexican tord to tory y and his him hold held on that 1 ie not at at nil 11 secure opposed to him are six orgen organ ired ind rebel 4 not including the sonora 01 Y u 4 11 11 while everywhere hn id an D ls in hampered hamp pred and his troops 1 harassed n by organized ban cintr bell Bearl ela el ni a up upon actual conditions ditl in 11 the new hew york tire times be ans 1 come I in a into possession poises slon of ciotla information far it in the official metal pus possession men of the tha united states state government ariff 1 lion of f these statements which follow 1 is t to b he e found I 1 in the id me of the a luem government marem I 1 in W carron has officially claimed cla lined that th IB B support eil bv a rog regular army a of f asody ODO well 1 1 disciplined and well equipped troops 0 0 this statement Is T not born out bv tile lie facts I 1 in the caw RIO the truth of the mat matter or to Is that his armed it forms dumber unde not more the than officers office and enlisted listed in men mho he are p poorly equipped whose h me morale mele le 1 Is nose nt at low ebb yet upon whose as 1 loyalty it depends Carra carranza nans a sway say ore over a people pup who number more than i today the consulla coahuila Con Coa hulla huila chieftain I 1 Is if ex authority u thorby in n the those e a parts of mo mexico not t under r ther rebel or bandit dival domination tion as ai a dicht dictator r and through the promulgation of executive tie decreed r ge of alie e great it at american borderline e car t r janra ranra Is in control of not reach much more aabak them than one third d while tile the whole of southern mexico Is severed mr nd from foon fed eral crid control by a barech of rebel ran con tiled t territory that on an the atlantic esto da from the rich oil lands land of to tarn p co almost to the city of vern vera cruz and on the pacific by the entire c coast t line of the most great state of car oaxaca lower california be has become became to all 11 1 in term tents and purposes purpose independent of the government ment that sits site lo in mexico city three general avlo Dv divisions lo the contending for forces in mexico mav be referred to under three a gen scat heads they are am first the federal or to forces second the rebel forces led bv felipe angeles Fra francisco vause vill villa gain I 1 amo a full blooded f adian di and ad bv ganv ali well informed ob fsr 1 considered the bleat ablest and most mont tras trustworthy toothy lender leader in mexico felix diaz dial mani man I who domin dominates atess the temple tampico and ad adjacent oil fields field the still despite carranza affirmation a power to ID that part of M fixico co of which the its aunte let of morelos 1 if 1 the 1 1 1 center I 1 il 1 general cantu governor rr 0 of t the e state t t e of lower california mud and the insulted yaqui in ill to forces a of the western part of the border state let of feodora onora third the bandits who in small groups we a operating everywhere I 1 in mexico As to the first or federal forces supporting carron carriers it Is as already pointed out the official claim ot of the pris present I mexican or carr carranza a govern ment out that till alile force fares num numbers br n 1 2 me men it 1 Is a conscript army to a great extent and it 1 Is small it and ad laell dent clear for two reasons tou t the a first being car carranna a inability to enforce con and ad the second the fact that he Is unable properly to equip train or maintain necessary discipline amla owing to these chete two conditions over shih cartoon appears apo to have A no eidt control 1 we the federal army of hi mexico calls 1 IB |