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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1919
MEXICAN OIL LAND LAWS
Legal precedent for the republic of
Mexico to nationalize its lands which
are now devoted to the production of
petroleum is claimed in a statement
recently furnished to the Associated
Press by Leon Salfnas, sub-secretary
of the department of commerce and
industry which has this question in
charge.
Laws and statutes governing the de
velopment of coal and oil deposits
date back to the days of the viceroys
in Mexico, the statement says, and
since that time there has been a
series of decrees and laws that firmly
establishes the rights of the republic
in this regard.
The question is now' in the hands of
the Mexican congress for revision,
with a view to adjudicating claims
made by foreign companies with vast
interests in Mexico.
As early as 1793 the Spanish gov
ernment, by law's knowm as “Mining
Statutes of New Spain,” established
the absolute dominion of the crown
over mines and their products in Mex
ico, says the statement.
Benito Juarez, president of Mexico,
decreed in 1863 that the nation has
direct dominion over coal beds.
In 1881 the supreme court of jus
tice decided that the coal mines were
subject to be denounced and that the
“Mining Statutes of New Spain” w-ere
still in force. Two years later the
congress of the union amended the
federal constitution, establishing the
light of that congress to issue mining
and commercial codes which should
be binding throughout the republic.
Based upon such authorization and
exercising the authority granted by
the legislative power, the president
in 1884 issued the first mining code
of the Mexican republic, which de
clared, in substance, that the coal
and oil of the subsoil belonged ’to the
ovmer of the surface. This principle
was followed in the mining law's is
sued by congress in 1892 and in 1910
The statement declares that later
in 1917, Article 27 of the constitution,
the proposed amendment to which
has been submitted to congress by
President Carranza, recognized the
dominion of the nation over the hy
drocarbons and the system of conces
sions for the exploration and develop
ment of petroleum. It is claimed
that the law which is now proposed
is founded upon the principles of the
constitution.
NEW EUROPE’S HISTORY
WILL BE TOLD IN STAMPS
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 24 (Corres
pondence of Associated Press)—Items
of historical interest are being addec
almost daily to the story of New
Europe as told serially on the pages
of the stamp album.
Poland’s newest contribution tc
this record Is a series of six postage
stamps, commemorative of the con
vocation of the national diet. Among
them is the first stamp portrait ol
Ignace Paderewski as president of the
Polish republic.
The Lettish government has issued
three stamps marking the delivery ol
Riga from the Bolshevists. They are
two figures, presumably representing
Riga and Lettonia, embracing before
the walls of a city.
The seventh centenary of the union
of Esthonia with Denmark accounts
for the issuance of 3,500 specimen
stamps, of restricted validity, in the
republic of Esthonia. They were on
sale for three days only. Because oi
the adoption of a new currency unit
in the republic, new stamps are being
prepared for distribution and sale.
“German Austria,” the residue of
the former Austrian empire, has is
sued stamps of distinctive design
from the state printery at Vienna.
President Masaryk’s portrait is to
appear on a new issue in preparation
in CzeciVDslovakia. Serbia-Croatia,
Slavonia, the Rumanian postal agency
in Constantinople and Armenia have
all contributed to this pictorial stamp
album record of the recent march of
world events.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA NEEDS
PRODUCTS OF AMERICA
PRAGUE, Aug. 10 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—By tightening
the national belt a hole and careful
conservation and organization of food
supplies, Czecho-Slovakia can weather
the winter safely, in the opinion of
the American food experts w7ho have
been surveying the country. In fact,
Czecho-Slovakia, particularly Bohe
mia, is said to be a good deal better
off than most of Eastern Europe. Her
qrops will run from 60 to 70 per cent
of normal and of certain valuable
commodities she admittedly has some
for export in return for more needed
supplies such as raw materials, nota
bly cotton.
She has appreciable quantities of
oats, barley and hops that can be
spared, as w7ell as some sugar and
coal, and these last twro commodities
are felt to be about the most precious
in Europe.' In return she wants
wheat flour and cotton. Her spinning
industry is at a standstill and experts
claim that she needs approximately
a hundred thousand bales of cotton
to supply her ow7n needs in textiles.
The over-supply of beet sugar is
Czecho-Slovakia’s big and valuable
asset and gives her a strategic posi
tion in Europe. The general situation
here is reassuring to the American
experts, and while there will be de
privation, they believe that with a
well-organized control of foods and
close economy there will be no real
suffering this winter.
KING’S BROTHER-IN-LAW
RECEIVES PROMOTION
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LONDON, Aug. 25 (by mail).—The
London Gazette announces that the
earl of Athlone, Second Life Guards,
and personal aide de camp to the
king, has been made a brigadier gen
eral. The earl is the third son of the
late duke of Teck and brother of the
queen.
The first holder of the title of the
earl of Athlone was Lieutenant Gen
eral Bentinck, an ancestor of Count
Godard Bentinck, the present host of
Count Hohenzollern at Amerongen,
Holland. He took a leading part under
William of Orange in winning the bat
tle of the Boyne, regarded by some as
the beginning of the present troubles
in Ireland.
MEXICAN ARMY WILL
HAVE PLENTY OF OFFICERS
JUAREZ, Mexico, Aug. 25 (by mail)
—Mexico City papers received here
tell of President Carranza’s plan for
reorganizing the entire Constitution
alist army. The reorganized army
will include ten generals of division,
63 generals of brigade, and 200 briga
dier generals, the two latter ranks
being distinctive in the Mexican
army. The other officers will include
4,223 superior officers and 10,600
minor officers.
SCOTCH WAR MUSEUM
AT EDINBOROUGH CASTLE
EDINBURG, Scotland, Aug. 23 (by
mail).—Edinburg castle has been se
lected for utilization as a memorial to
Scotland’s participation in the war.
A new building, dedicated to the
memory of slain Scottish soldiers,
1 will be erected within the castle
grounds on the site of the ancient
church built by King David I. A war -
museum containing relics and tro- r
phies will be part of the memorial. I
ENGLAND CONTINUES
FOOD RATIONING
, LONDON, Aug. 20 (by • mail) —
Plans for food rationing, modeled
. after the plan in force during the
war, have been announced by the
food controller. Meat, sugar and but
ter are the commodities particularly
considered.
All persons must register with re
tailers. New ration cards are to be
issued to take the place of those
which went out of existence last
April.
~RELIEF~FOR BLIND
LONDON, Aug."24 (by mail).—Of
the 30,000 blind persons in England
and Wales, only eighty-five are beg
gars, according to the advisory board
of the Welfare of the Blind. The
committee recommends that $3.50
a week be given to all blind persons
who are employed and earning up to
$1.25 a week.
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