The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-01
nf6ciaI Information Shows Car
rama Barely Clings to Con-
troll Over Rest.
:. ..,dent Is Too Weak to Keep Order
:. Bandits Harass Whole Country
INDUSTRY snuffed Out and
Morale at Low Ebb.

xaw york-The Mexican problem
.s never more Troublesome. COndi-
,ors in that revolution-racked land
.sre never more chaotic than they are
.oasv Carranza now controls little
.ore than one-half Of Mexican terri
,Ory and his hold on that is not at all
..rure. Opposed 10 him are six organ
~ rebel organizations. not including
~ Sonora Yaquis. while everywhere
IA authority Is hampered and his
rcops harassed by organized ban
fEiry.
Rearing upon actual conditions In
uexico. the New York Times has come
40 possession of certain information,
~ in the official possession of the
matted States government. Veriflca-
I'M of these statements which follow
\ TO be found In the archives Of the
eyernment in Washington.
Carranza has officially claimed that
is supported by regular army OF
mOOO well disciplined and well
1uipped troops. This statement is
"a borne out by the facts in the case,
a the truth of the matter Is that his
med forces number not more than
nOOO officers and enlisted men, who
poorly equipped, whose morale is
low ebb. yet upon whose loyalty de-
sds Carranza's sway over a people
10 number more than 115.OOO,OOO.
Today the Coahuila "chieftain" is ex-
pdslng authority In those parts of
rnic0 not under rebel or bandit
InlnatiOn as a dictator and through
promulgatiOn Of executive DEGREES.
the great American border-line Car
IN one-third, while the whole of
ufhern Mexico is severed from fed
b control" by stretch Of rebel-con-
Ned territory that on the Atlantic
ends from the rich oil lands of Tam
b almost to the City of Vera Cruz,
on the Pacific by the entire coast
OF the great state of Oaxaca.
ser California has become to all in
- and purposes independent Of the
eunment that sits in Mexico City.
Three General Divisions.
The contending forces in Mexico
~ be referred to under three gen.
nl heads. They are:
ffst-The federal or Carranzista
sNs.
Scond-The rebel forces led by
slpe Angeles. Francisco Villa, GULL
mo Meixuerio, a full-blOoded Zapotec
Man, and by many well-informed OBJ
irers considered the ablest and most
F'vorthy leader in Mexico; Felix
" Manuel Pelaez. who dominates
Tampico and adjacent Oil fields;
Apatistas, still. despite Carranza
mation, power in that part of
1'co of which the state Of Morelos
ne center; General Cantu, governor
ne state of Lower California, and
organized YaQui Indian forces of
western part Of the border state Of
nora.
imrd-The bandits who, In small
0a% are operating everywhere in
1eo.
Nto the first or federal forces sup
ung Carranza. it is, as already
au'ed out. the official claim OF the
eent Mexican, or Carranza, govern
l' mat this force numbers 10000
IL Is conscript army to
'' extent and II is small and ineffi-
A' Tor two reasons. the first being
'sazas inability to enforce con-
pnoh' and the second the fact that
unable properly to equip, train,
saia'aln necessary discipline.
Jug 10 these two conditions. over
80 earranza appears to have no
1"' the federal army of Mexico is