The Connecticut labor press., 1919-07-26
Official Information Shows Car
 ranza Barely CIings to Con- troI Over Rest.
HAS ONLY 60, ,OOO TROOPS
President Is Too Weak to Keep Order as Bandits Harass Whole Country -Industry Snuffed Out and
 Morale at Low Ebb.

New York.-The Mexican problem was never more troublesome. Condi- tions in that revolution-racked land were never more chaotic than they are today. Carranza now controls little more than one-half of Mexican terri tory and his hold on that is not at all secure. Opposed to him are six organ ized rebel organizations, not including the Sonora Yaquis, while everywhere his authority is hampered and his troops harassed by organized ban ditry.
 Bearing upon actual conditions in Mexico, the New York Times has come into possession of certain information, now in the official possession of the United States government. sVerif1ca- tion of these statements which follow Is to be found in the archives of the government in Washington ,,s *
 Carranza has officially claimed that he is supported by a regular army of 10000 we'll disciplined and we'll equipped troops. This statement is not borne out by the facts in the case, and the truth of the matter Is that his armed forces number not more than 6O,000 officers and enlisted men, who are poorly equipped, whose morale Is at low ebb,. yet upon whose loyalty de bends Carranza's sway over a people who number more than 115,O00,000.
 Today the Coahuila "chieftain" is ex- ercfsing authority in those parts of Mexico not under rebel or bandit domination as dictator and through the promulgation of executive decrees. Of the great American border-line Car ranza is in control of not much more than one-third, while the whole of southern Mexico is severed from fled eral contro1'' by a stretch of rebel-con- trOlled territory that on the Atlantic extends from the rich oil lands of Tam rico almost to the City of Vera Cruz, and on the Pacific by the entire coast line of the great state of Oaxaca. Lower California has become to all in- tents and purposes independent of the government that sits in Mexico City.
 Three General Divisions.
 The contending forces in Mexico may be referred to under three gen. eral heads. They are:
 First-The federal or Carranzista forces.
 Second-The rebel forces led by Felipe Angeles, Francisco Villa, Guill- ermo Meixuerio, a fuH-blooded Zapotec Indian, and by many well-informed ob- servers considered the ab1est and most trustworthy leader in Mexico; Felix Diaz, Manuel Pelaez, who dominates the Tampico and adjacent oil fields the Zapatistas, still, despite Carranza affirmation, a power in that part of Mexico of which the state of Morelos Is the center General Cantu, governor of the state of Lower California, and the organized Yaqui Indian forces of the western part of the border state of Sonora. ss
 Third-The bandits who, in small groups, are operating everywhere in Mexico.
 As to the first or federal forces sup porting Carranza, it is, as already pointed out, the official claim of the present Mexican, or Carranza, govern ment, that this force numbers 10000 men. It is a conscript army to a great extent and it is small and ineffi- cient for two reasons, the first being Carranza's inability to enforce con- scription, and the second the fact that he is unable properly to equip, train, or maintain necessary discipline. Owing to these two conditions, over which CarranZa appears to have no control, the federal army of Mexico is