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Show HUERTA POLICY TO REPORTERS Provisional President Says Five Genera's Are in Revoit Against Government MEXICO CITY. J.ily 9. Article 27 of the Mexican constitution which nationalizes na-tionalizes petroleum deposits will be sustained theoretically but nil decrees Issuer hy former President '""arrann prejudicing prior rlglits of petroleum owners will be abrogated b a presidential presi-dential decree to be Issued shortly. Prov!iional President Adolfo de In Huerta made this statement to foreign correspondents lst night. Oil men will be (riven the right to i pre-empt petroleum claim within f!C irs, but once pre-emption 1 made thry will have an Indefinite time with- J In which to drill, the provisional pres. ldcnt said. MAY EXTR CT OIL. "While the nation will toll oil men that It ow n? the petroleum Jn the Bub-soil." Bub-soil." he snld, 'whrit difference will It make when the- government cedes tol operators the right to extract this oil and dispose of It nt their pleasure? It is merely a question of name. The substantial rights of owners will be safeguarded ' Tim projected decree will protect 1 prior owners by forbidding outsiders pre-i tnptlng the former's property) and! I lurincr, an ucn ;,r( rvjoue x .ions n i r outsiders Interfering with prior rights! win be abrogated, sold the provision-1 I al president. lie declared he would present legislation to this effect to the ; , new c"xr u w hn it meets in Beptejn-1 ber. After that the matter will be in the hards of the legislators. RECEIVES REPORTERS. The provisional president received 1 i eight North. American and British cor-1 cor-1 respondente and spoke from his sick ! bed. It was the f lri it Interview he haa Klven Klni e fluting e. banipiet to for-cIku for-cIku eorreepondents he was takon III while giving a dramntlc recital of Ills ; break with Garransa Five Knerals have taken tip arms I agalnsl the new Mpzloan goemmenti ! provisional President de la llucrta told I foreign i orrespondent.s, hut he deolar. od they did not constitute a military menace since thry had but very feu followers He estimated that nr,t more than Kef men had been involved In I recent outbreaks. He usaortod tho army had been re-I re-I organized, that unstcbio foices could not (-hake tjio administration. "The Garransa government," said d la Huerta, laughing, ::fod for more than four yern against over B6,000 rebels, and there Ih no reason why the present government cannot contend with less than 500." oo |