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Show OBSTACLES IW WAY OF CISJIl III I Mining- and Scientific Press Says Carranza Has Officially Offi-cially Levied Tribute. Speedy reopening of mines in Chihuahua Chi-huahua is expected by General Francisco Murgla, now that protection against Villa's depredations is assured, says the Mining and Scientific Press, j But the general says nothing about i Carranza's official depredations on the I mines, in the form of taxation and requlsi- tions of a most burdensome kind. Per-j Per-j haps the Carranza government will ac-j ac-j quire better manners as the need of a j loan becomes felt Increasingly, i Persis-ent rumors come from New York that a Mexican loan of $150,000.000 dollars, dol-lars, not pesos Is requested. But Carranza Car-ranza has suspended tlie constitution that he claimed to be defending, and Mexico is today under the underlain control of a pompous dictator. He lias decreed that no transfers or deeds to property can be made to aliens unless they renounce i their citizenship rights and thereby lose ' the protection of their own flag whatever what-ever it may be worth. Unfortunately, no healthy opposition to Carranza exists in Mexico today, only bands of wandering bandits; but cartridges car-tridges and munitions of war generally are becoming scarce, so that the confusion con-fusion of misrule is beeomitia abated. Car-ranzn's Car-ranzn's violent friendship for German propagandists prop-agandists and exploiters is waning, and lie m;iy find it useful to make friends with Uncle Sam in order to borrow a little money, on conditions. |