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Show uu Field Secretary Explains Order Issued by Mexico EL PASO. Tex.. July 1 The order preventing drilling on land purchased fioin indhidual owners in Mexico by Americans is consistent with the at ti tude of the Carranza government toward to-ward Americans and American interests, inter-ests, Joseph N. Quail, a field secretary for the National Association for the Protection of American Interests in Mexico, declared here today. Mr Quail is hero from New York to organize or-ganize a group ot the association in El Paso among those having property interests in-terests in Mexico. "The order is in disregard of the warning issued to the Mexican government govern-ment by Secretary of State Lansing, through Ambassador Fletcher in 1S9S." he continued. "The Carranza government govern-ment was notified in this protest that the American government would not permit confiscation of property rights legally acquired by its nationals in Mexico " nn |