The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-23
BY ARTHUR CONSTANTINE,
Staff Correspondent Of the interna'
tional News Service, Who Is ON

nv ARTHUR CONSTANTINE,
STAR Correspondent Of the lnterna-
tional News Service, Who Is ON
HIS Way Back From Mexico:
Havana. April 22.-Dvery weli-in-
formed American coming out OF Mex
aco in the grand exodus these Gays IL
carrying home the same story-tna.
Carranza's fight talk Is unaduiterateo
diplomatic bluffing. The totai known
supply OF ammunition possessed ny
the de facto government would not
last through a before sunrise battle.
II 10 approximately between b,0o0,OVo
and 20,000,000 rounds of oartrid ges,
with q few thousand rounds OF shells
thrown in for good measure. Accu-
rate information which the outgoing
Americans are carrying back to the
States shows that Carranza's govern
msnt has. roughly speaking, about
$4,000 Indian troops, giving about 26o
cartridges to the man. the ammuni-
sien to be equally distributed among
Sata various so-caiied constttutionalist
nrr,iss. OF the sinews Of war the
&c '&cto government has ntte or
nothing.
n - bankrupt n has perhaps
100000 to 100000 pesos, The
muaition factory recently set up In
Mexico City can make only $4,000 de-
kso.tve cartridges daily and few hun
dred equally bad shells. A miscel-
laneous assortment Of worn-out old
fashioned field pieces, mostly of three
inch caifbrA and a few hundred ma
chine guns complete the inventory OK
Carranza's preparedness
Disorder Investigated by Government.
The outgoing Americans also viii
teI1 their people in the United States
that every enti-Amsr4oan manifesto
eion 70 date has been instigated and
directed by orders of government OF
fciais acting under instructions from
Queretaro, and subsequently from
Mexico C;ty-that no Recommendations
and no uprisings OCCUR in Mexico
These DAYS without explicit orders
from ana direction by the so-called
ap.horities. and that in all instances.
The expression is used deliberately
81 1al~ s~ticipants are ragtaif SOL
diers and government employees
shoeless Indians. for the most part,
who know nothing of what they do
and who are led tty jefea who know
very well what they are doing.
Even when the government closes
the stores and shops and orders the
employees to report for patrol mani
festations, the employees keep away.
fearful that they will be seized for
the army. and. besides, they are un-
sympathetic. The whole thing Is
phonv business, as Special Represen-
tative James I. Rodgers has informed
Washington and Carranza himself.
too. and IL for the purpose OF enabling
Don venustiano TO say IN Warrington
ut In becoming increasingly DIM
cult to restrain the patriotism OF the
Mexican people Unless the United
States wtthdraws its troops inmedi-
ately. the de facto government can
not accept responsibility for controil-
ting the people"
Rodgers Hts NfnNoh.
When Carranga passed this bullet
buncombe TO the straight-from-the-
shoulder special representative. a.
Rodgers has come to be known In
Mexico city. the latter. who 10 an e1-
pert on the -Latin-American revoiu.
taonary character. curtiy said 60 the
First Chief: 81 am thoroughly farnii-
far with tho origin OF the manifesto
lions 10 date. and. speaking oficiaify