The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-26

need of ammunition and other war ma terials. Despite this handicap, how. ever, the Felicistas, as the Diaz reb- els are known, continue to be force, and all the efforts of CarranZa to break up the organization have failed. The Felicistas are operating in the state of Tamaulipas in the north and in part of Hidalgo, Puebla, and Vera Cruz in the south. The southern Fe-
 iefsta area forms the center link in the rebel ocean barrier.
 The state of Morelos and small parts of the states of Mexico and Guerrero form the area in which the famous 1 Zapatistas are and have been operat- ing for the last sevenq~years. AS for Cantu, in Lower California, the situation there can be dismissed with word. Cantu is in absolute control of that part of Mexico, and Carranza Is making no effort to interfere with the independent state that Cantu has set up. gmuqqIe Arms In.
 The seventh of Carranza's troubles are the Yaquis of western Sonora. They are operating in bandit groups and number probably several thousand. Like the Villistas, they are armedN and equipped by smuggling from the United l States. The Yaquis are among the hardest and best fighters in Mexico, and little if any effort is being made 1 by the federal government to restore order in that part of Sonora under their domination. Lastly, the bandits. Official reports prove that everywhere in Mexico the outlaw bands are to be found. Their number is unknown, but they are powerful enough to hold the attention of a considerable part of Carranza's hard-pressed little regular army of co., 900 men. .E Briefly, what precedes gives the line up of the factions that are fighting for control of Mexico. Here are some of the facts, officially established, that have resulted from the country wide internecine strife in Mexico.
 Economically Mexico is in the midst of crisis which is characterized by the intense poverty and the actual want of the great mass of the people. The morale of the population everywhere was never lower than at the present time. The general health of the peo- pie is everywhere bad. Cattle raising, the principal industry of the nation, is today only about ten per cent of what it was in 1914. Of all Mexican in- dustries, the growing of henequin alone shows progress. All textile factories and sugar mills, with a few exceptions, are out of business and those that are operating are run down and in need of repair. Practically all of the coun> try's 16,OO0 miles of railroads are de- moralized or destroyed as a result of rebel and bandit activity. Not cent of interest has been paid on the na- tfonal foreign debt in more than five years.
 More than 75 per cent of the popu- Iation is now absolutely tlliterate. The national credit is gone, and the for eign oil interests are, despite the ap- parent friendly attitude of Pelaez, menaced. As an indication of the health of the people, latest reports es- timate the yearly death rate in Mexico City is 21 900, while the reported birth rate is only 7,5OO. It is believed, how ever, that correct census would show a larger birth rate. although the 7,5O0 estimate is official.
 At the present time all reliable re- ports coming out of Mexico indicate the precarious condition of the Carran- za government. Carranza has been during the past three years probably the most pro-German head of state i'm Hn cY1h
 Openly Pro-German.
 Until recently his attitude has been unfriendly to the United States, and when he thought Germany was win ming he made no efforts to conceal his sympathy for the Teutons. Legisla- tion that was passed during the war and which was directed against the allied oil holdings in the Tampico coun- try is generally believed, in private as well as official circles, to have been inspired by German interests and rep resentatives in Mexico. Protests against this legislation have been filed by the American, British and French govern ments.
 Since he developed his anti-American attitude Carranza has famed his supporters with the slogan of Latin American Solidarity" against the great northern republic, and today the most generally developed trait in the ma- jority of Mexicans in federal controlled territory Is fhat 0f anti-AmaPicanfSTn