New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-27
Conditions in Neighboring
Land Declared Worse
than in Europe.
ALL THE COUNTRY,
is ASKED TO HELP
Gutierrez Orders Cessa-
ton of All Summary
Executions.
IFrom The rrroune Bureau

Washington OeCs 90 SAaANaNAN
and other distresses from the ravages
Of war surprising European conditions
are declared by the Red Cross to be
alarmingly prevalent in Mexico.
An appeal for help for the stricken
people. issued by the society to-day
was accompanied by a copy of dis
patch from Consul General Hanna, at
Monterey, Mexico. and other eommu-
nications which paint q black picture
Of the republics affairs. Mr.. Hanna
says:
"There is an alarming shortage of
corn, beans. rice and other staple food
supplies. have purchased about fif-
teen hundred bushels of shelled corn,
such as the Mexicans use for making
tortillas, which is the principal food of
the poor people The women and citi-
zens of San Antonio, Tex, have sent
me a carload Of food and clothing. |
have use Of the large Monterey Hos
pital as a supply and distribution sta
ton. Several outlying towns are ap-
pealing to me for help. II the winter
keeps cold there will be great suffer
ing with hunger and cold. need two
thousand cheap blankets After four
years Of war this whole country is
short Of food I will make all supplies
and money go as far as possible"
The following resume of Mexican
conditions was included in the Red
Cross appeal. with the mention that it
was confirmed by the American Consul
at Maiamoras:
"The conditions in Europe which
shocked the civilized world have existed
here against our borders for four
years, uneonsidered. Mexico is peopled
with widows and orphans, and famine
is in the land. At first II reached US
only as a rumor from remote places,
but now u is present among us on
both sides of the Rio Grande.
zone sees it daily in emaciated
forms. shrunken cheeks, tightly drawn
slin and burning eyes-sees it in the
faces of women. old men and little
children. Many have died on American
soil during the last year, ostensibly
from obscure disease, but actua ly from
starvation. and there are hundreds of
children who have never had sufficient
food in their pitiful little lives. That
is the heartbreaking tragedy of it all
the quiet, unsmiling children who sit
silently by the doors Of huts through
the long hours of the long days. The
sound of laughter and of playing chill
dren is stilled in Mexico. nj
"They have endured much, but now
has been reached the end of even their
etoicism, and from the east and the
west and the south comes a cry for
bread from the starving. Up TO date
practically the only aid has come from
the State of Texas. Relief societies all
along the border have done noble work.
But the burden has grown too great
FOR one state, or $40 or three. The
United States has claimed the exclusive
right TO intervene in Mexican affairs.
VIII we demand the right and repu-
Mate the obligations?
"There is need for food and clothes
and medicines The need is pressing
There is no time to be lost. Helpless
ones are suffering and dying. Arrange
ments have been made whereby sup
plies can be distributed from the
American Consulate at this place TO
any locality in Mexico, and for the
judicious expenditure Of any funds that
may be donated"
The American Red Cross a short time
ago, on an appeal from Admiral How
ard, in command of the Pacific fleet
sent $1,000 worth of food supplies to
the people Of Acapulco, on the west
coast, which was distributed by the
American Consul among eight hundred
poor families.
Americans are warned against going
20 Mexico 20 resume the normal avoca-
ti0ns Of Teace in a statement given out
10y the Department of State to-day. The
warning was included in a general
rress notice regarding conditions ir
Lower California, and said:
ut may be stated in this connection
however, that the department does not
advise Americans TO return to Mexico,
and those who 90 80 go there on their
own responsibility
This injunction was predicated anon
a dispatch from the American Vice
Consul at Ensenads, Lower California.
% This official wrote the department that
while there had been some political
disturbance conditions were improving
and the district was quiet The vice
consul states that the bitter feeling
against Americans that was noticeable
last spring has apparently disappeare /,
and that some Of them have returned.
He states that in and around Ensenada
there are thirty-fiye Americans. in the
southern part of the district thirty
three and in the Imperial Valley,
around Mexicali, over one hundred.
Mexico City, Dec. Provisional
President Gutierrez tonight issued a
afr "a. oil fraparola Of b.
of the convention, ordering them in
most explicit terms TO cease ali sum
mary executions for whatsoever Of
fence. Copies were sent to Generals
Villa and Zapata.
The Provisional Presidents secre-