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Show IX. OIL ILLS I WILL BE SEALED I Government Plans Measure to Collect B?ck Taxes From Companies j MEXICO I ITV, Aug 27 Oil wells H belonging to Petroleum companies 'which have not paid export duties be- 'fore the lime limit expiree on August Il will be sealed by tho government. .according to a statement by Manuel Padres, undersecretary of the trcas- H jury, tonight. It has been previously H announced that tankers owned by dc- mm jllnquent companies would not bo al-lowed al-lowed to leave Mexican ports. Rafael Mansalo. national treasurer, H declared today the government had r ' " a . lit from petroleum I companies. Mexico Will export this year more WmMM petroleum than all other countries combined, the treasury department 91 predicted toduy. Estimated shipments H for the year aggregate 140,000.000 jkw barrels All records in the petroleum M history of the country were broken H during July when 120.000,000 barrels I or more than a million above tho total I of June shipments, went out of the I country. |