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Show i Makes Charges. nose Tribune Special Service.') JHIXGTOX. Ie. 10. Mexican hos- 10 the United States and efforts to , the industrial unrest in this eoun-I eoun-I chWd pv' Representative Gould , vork as the true purpose of the t drive by the Carranza povern-to povern-to prevent shipments of fuel oil Mexico into this country, and the ac in of new wells by Americans ir own oil lar.ds in Mexico. rr.i.m John Barton Payne of the board this afternoon laid before ps:dent and the secretary of state suda showing the injurious effect American merchant marine of curat cur-at of ti.e Mexican fuel oil supply, Dt'.-.iisizhii; the necessity for piving rjo:i to American oil interests in pc-.siWifV for the whole situation nth Fresideut Wilson, " says Gould, til? preiiient makes it clear to called government of Mexico that ) by the United States will he con-j con-j ico drastic if necessary to protect hens and their rights, the people of uiury wid continue to suffer from ects of the failure of their govern- 0 function. ile ir. the grip of a coa famine, the ne?s of which can hardly be ex-ted, ex-ted, the country has been brought face with a further curtailment of 11 supplies through a deliberately 1 and timed hostile act of the n government. a conference with Judge Payne rn;nz, I learned that there alreadv i shortase of fuel oil reserves along lantie coast, and that a cessation ir:s of Mexican fuel oi! in a very ;eki will embarrass the operation merchant marine. Over 90 per cent he fuel oil used on the Atlantic and ests. both for bunkering ships and iC'jstria'i purposes, comes from i 0: the 60.0''ija"0 barrels brought n this source annually, the ship ping bound is now using ;i coutnirt for 21.01)0,1100 barrels, and by the end of next your will bo using at tli,. ratc ,,f .pi imio.uiio barrels per annum. The co.i'oo.iioil barrels bar-rels of fuel oil is the residue from refined Mexican crude oil, which produces over 30,000,1100 gallons of gasoline, all of which conies into the United Slates, and is an essential part of the supply which is consumed con-sumed by ti.OOO.ooit motor vehicles uf va -rious kinds in the United Slates. "The total coll.sunint iial of petroleum (n the United States is ;io,ooti.iioo barrels a year greater than the supple. Including both Mexican and domestic oil, according to IsMS figures, leaving Dial much lo be drawn from stored oil in the United State's. "In an attempt to force American oil i companies to relin.iuish their legally ae- ' (lulled Mexican properties, the Mexican government, by force of arms, is preventing pre-venting all drilling for new wells on these lands. Kxistlng wells. Involving approximately approxi-mately 50 per cent of the total Mexican production, recently have started to go to water." |