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Show I MEXICO STATES POLICrON OIL Has No Intention of Giving Up Lands to Companies, Says President m BXICO citv. Sept. 8. Curtail jggestlons relative to the rvdmlnlstra tlon of federal zones In connoctlor with petroleum operation arc In . luded In n letter the Mcxlmn for-lgi offlco lias received from George T Sumnierlln. hnrge d'affaires at thi L'nlted Stutes embassy. In dlscusslnj the letter ester. i. iv, provisional Free ident de la Huertn s.ild III EM B II Ms Tint federal MnM are tho property of the nation, which maintains shi has a right to dispose of them n ihl desire. A doportnre from this pollej would mean the loss of the nation' sovereignty." The provisional president declare this letter to be the only communlca tlon relative to petroleum sent to thi foreign office b) th. I nltcd Sates. 'Mexico has no desire to curtail hci exporfatlons of oil to the Ui States." the provisional president con tlnued. "and the rampslgn wiser there relative to the oil Question U nothing but so-called North Amerlcar bluff by en. inles of the M xl-an gov rnment." Asked If Mexico could exist wlihout recognition of her government from the United State-. . a Huerta declared de-clared ! W are still existing Mexico hai expressed her willingness to be on friendly terms with the world at largf and now It la up to the world to decide de-cide whether It hhii!. Mexico as a Iirienu. UNDER I n y mw The federal zones, the provisional president declared, would not be kept as national reserves, bill would be given out under concessions. under an agreement to pay a royalty of 13 per cent of the oil produ ad, whl h w ould be sufficient 10 meet the government's needs. He denied the government Intended In-tended to confiacets the vested right of companies operdtlng wells in tnese zones and saserted Ihe petroleum iues-Hon iues-Hon could be settled If the Mexican ov ernment s rights wr,- t... u He Intimated foreign corporations did not desire a settlement of the ues;ton. saying, "This would force them to . chlbll theli titles ui oil binds and mnnv of these titles nr. defe, live " oo |