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Show uu MEXICAN LAND OWNERS FIGHT CONFISCATION LAW WASHINGTON. Nov. 12. Unid owm-rs in the Mexican state of JallSOO have organised to fight Article 27 of the Mexican constitution because of Its alleged confiscatory provisions, according ac-cording to Mexico City newspapers arriving ar-riving here today. The newspapers also stuto that the leaders of the Jalisco Jal-isco opposition to Article 2 7. the first organized attack on the article, bj Mexicans propose to enlist in their fight land owners throughout the republic. re-public. i Article 27, against which for three years the governments of the United States, Great Rrltaln and France have protested, is t liaractcrl.t d b the .1 il-Isco il-Isco land owners In a statement primed prim-ed in the capital newspapers as ' it ii alleged 'law of vindication" which has I been merely a law of spoliation " The effect of the operations of the article, which expropriates land above a certain cer-tain acreage held by Individuals or corporations, the land owners assert, has been to destroy little by little ag-rartan ag-rartan property, to reduce production, to spread terror imong agriculturists and to paralyze all their activities. oo |