The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-04
ESTIMATE OF
 HUERTA'S TROOPS
ALL TOLD ACCORDING TO CAP. TAIN BURNSIDE HE HAS
 ONLY 6o,00o MEN.
The Constitutionalists Have 10000.
 Not Including 15o,ooo Bandits Who
 Claim to be Followers of Carranza.

Vera Cruz, June 3.-Captain w. A.. Burnside. formerly military attache at Mexico City and now intelligence of fcer of Brigadier General Funston's force, submitted a memorandum to day on the strength and disposition of Huerta's troops and summarizing the territorial division between the federals and the constitutionalists. He estimates the total number of Huer- ta forces, including police, students and civil service empoyes, at 60000.
 Armed revoutionists, says, having an organization and being actually un- der fair contrzol of their leaders, are estimated at about 70,000, though brigands claiming to be constitution alists bring this number up to prob ably 150,000.
 Of the Huerta forces the report in- dicates that about 5000 are scattered along the railroads between Vera Cruz and the capital and that the gar <son at Mexico City numbers 13,0O9. The estimate is made of only 5000 regulars in the capital
 The strongest federal garrisons, of (. 900 each. are at san Luis Potosi and Aguas Calientes, with 5000 at Guay- mas The estimates show no con siderable Huerta forces in the imme- diate vicinity of Vera Cruz.
 According to the report, Guaymas, Mazatlan San Luis Potosi and Iaca- tecas are the only Federal garrisons north of the 22nd parallel They merely hold the towns. contro ling lit tie oi the surrounding territory. The routed garrisons at Torreon, Saltillo, Monterey and Tampico are believed to be concentrating at San Luis Po- tosi.
 "Outsile of holding the points mentioaed,' the memorandum con tinues, there can be no basis for the claim of federal control north of the 22nd paral el"
 Captain Burnside points out that it is improbable that any sweeping gen eral advance of the constitutionalisrs on Mexico City will be made because the northerlers then would be get ting away from the home territory, the only part of Mexico they really understand It would not be at all surprising if the leaders experienced difficulty in inducing the men to make a further Southern advance he says.
 The memorandum asserts that the government reports printed il the capital of a garrison numbering 10000 men at Guadalaiara fear that the con- stitutionalists on the west coast, now holding Topic, are threatening to in- wade the Guadalajara valley
 Captain Burnside discounts the re- ported number of this garrison by sixty per cent.
 Captain Burnside sees no possibil- ity of the success of a campaign by Villa on the capital for many months. He says that even with san Luis Pc tosi taken the constitutionalists would nave to fight their way 315 miles to the capital through the con NflALA fA'h iOl Nfo Oi blt l''lNA tAlss ilOW fully supplied with arms and ammuni- ton
 After San Luis Potosi are Gonzales Junction and Celaya which dominate the railroad lines supp yng the cap ital with the bulk of the native fooo supplies It is certain he says thar desperate resistance to the advance would be encountered there.
 Captain Burnside dismisses the zapatistas as not able successfully to operate except in the immediate vicility of their home" He declares that the bandit arms supply comes from the defeated federals sent on, from the capital He estimates the Zapata forces at 15,O00 in scattered bands