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Show TRADE WAR LIKELY IN REPUBLIC OF MEXICO MEXICO CITV. Jan. 28. According to tho Moxican "Herald a trade" war on a large scale Is soon to be fought in the Republic of Mexico, the contestants being be-ing the Standard Oil company and the Ann of Pearson & Son. Ltd. The. former for-mer concern now controls .the oil business busi-ness of the Repuhllc, but for a number of months the. English firm has been buying up lands and sinking wells. They have spent 515.000.000 In development work already, and Indications point to the expenditure of a much larger sum by them. |