The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-04

Mexico City. March 25.-(8y Cou- rier 10 Fl Paso, April 3)-A report predicting that Mexico faces serious situation respecting her food supplies has been made by a committee Of Americans and other foreigners here who nave been investigating the sit uation. The report, in part, Is as fol- lows:
 Four years of almost continuous fighting throughout the various parts of the republic has produced condi- tiou of affairs in the food supply sit ! nation so serious as 10 threaten a famine of such proportions as to ] necessitate worldwide aid The fac1 that farm hands have everywhere i been thrown into so-called armies l tlat farm animals have been utilized for like purposes that leaders Of ! rowing bands marching under ban uers containing fantastic legends ! about liberty and the rights of man, 1 which they use as a blind to facilitate 1 robbery. piuage and murder have so reduced the crop acreage that by November 1915. there will be a l shortage of 39.370,0o0 bushels of corn alone not 10 mention the other abso- lately necessary cereals ale now we'll known to those Investigating, who have made a careful study oi l this phase of MeXico's ills.
 That the effects of this wanton de struction are only just beginning to 1 he felt is due to the productive riches of MeXico's agricultural regions. il is said, the farmer has but to scratch the soil and drop his seed, while God and sunshine do the rest, But self l seeking and self-appointed military | leaders have for so long a time pIe- vented the farmer from even scratching the soil ever so great an acreage that Mexico is about to reap the whirlWind she has sowu.
 1 Corn is the staff of life in Mexico, as is wheat or it's products in other countries. The harvest of this cereal for the present should begin about | the first of November. that is eight ! months from the date of the writing of this report Upon investigation We find that but five states Of Mex ico's 27 have a sufficient supply to carry them over this period.
 "OaXaca, Morelos, Campeche, Ia basco and Chialas probably have enough corn to last them eight months if the strictest economy is employed ii using that staple. This will take care of a popuace of 1,70o,. l 000 Yucatan, with a population of 350,000 produces no corn. but has money 10 buy it in the United States This leaves the rest of Mexico with a population of approximately 13.500,- GOO, with a visible supply of a3proXi- mately 675O00 tons, enough to last 1 but three months About next July, then the real rinch of hunger will
 be felt throughout the leneta and breadth of Mexico.
 What, then, will be necessary to 1 relieve the consequent distress and prevent, perhaps the death of thou sands from starvation? In normal 1 tlMeS It requires l,SVV,UVU tons or corn to feed these 13.500O00 over a period Of eight months With the visible supply but 675.000 tons. this leaves a shortage of 1.12j.000 tons, or 39,375,000 bushels. This corn must
 he purchased from the United States.
 The present market price laid down
 at points along the northern frontier is 90 cents gold bushel
 If we allow 15 cents gold a bushel
 for distribution cost throughout the
 various parts of the republic we have / charge of $105 gold per bushel
 which will necessitate the eNpendi- ture of S41 ,343,7 gold to prevent a
 devastating famine By that time the purchasing power of the Mexican
 peso will have dropped 10 10 cents
 gold, so, due to the unconscionable
 ignorant, and selfish attitude of the military elements of all factions, Mexico will find herself called upon
 to expendl 43,437 800 pesos to ore.
 vent the larger part of her population
 from starving to death.
 | "Where is this money to come from? With a bottom scraped treas
 ury and a white-hed country, Mexico