Show I U UI S 8 PROTESTING MEXICAN LAW LAIS S American Investments of p t Million Are In Danger WASHINGTON WASHINGTO- Jan By 9 9 r The Associated The Press Press The delicate cate status of relations between the Ul States and Mexico he- he became became came Increasingly plain today with disclosure that Ambassador Sheffield Sheffield field had tiled filed formal protest with the American foreign office e against retroactive c provisions pro of the iwo two new Mexican laws las known I as petroleum and anti alien i land act Estimates of the aggregate value of American Investments In t Mexico Jeopardized b by these enact enact- enactments ments taken talen at their face value alue run as high as State Slate department officials re- re fused refused to to make public the corn com communication corn presented by Mr lr She She- field Although It is known to have bave therIs been strongly phrased there Is iii nothing to show It Indicated what course the Washington n gov- gov government government government would pursue It tr unable to obtain for tor its nationals the pro pro- protection to which the they are held to t tobe be entitled This right of protection Is re re- re regarded regarded here as ns Indisputable both bOlh under accepted law and ond pledges made by Mexico to the United I States State during the conference In II 1923 which paved the way ay for American recognition of ot that gov- gov government government government The protest Is the culmination ot of a long series ot of representations I which began last fall tall when the theland land and petroleum laws law fir first Callesto were proposed by President Calles Calle I to 10 the Mexican congress cong |