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Show 00 MEXICO MAY SEIZE SHIPS TO COLLECT OIL DUTY MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24. Every le-means le-means will be employed to collect export duties on petroleum for the months Of March, April, May and I June, said a treasury department bul-le' bul-le' in 1-. iued toduy. An official announcement made 1 .ionic time ago said the time limit for these payments would be August 30. but Benjamin Mann, undcr-secretary of the treasury, said a great many companies had signified their intention inten-tion to make payment, and he did not ' expect detention of petroleum boat" owned by delinquent companies, would I be carried out. On other hand, the newspaper "Ex-BelSiOi "Ex-BelSiOi 1 said today that the treasury ; announcement meant that the tankers I would be detained and that petroleum I shipments by companies that ha e failed to pay their export duties would be seiei 00 |