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Show BRITISH OWNERS OF RAILROAD PROTEST MEXICO CITY. Mar. 4. British itockholders in the Interoccanic railway, rail-way, one of the federal operated roads In Mexico, recently protested to the government against its retention ami demanded he return of the property, prop-erty, together with accrued damages. General Amado Aguirre, secretary of communications and public works, stated In reply that the railway was takt n over "for military purposes." trlotly within the law and that tho government was ex used from paying damages for its ns. until a final liquidation liq-uidation was effected and the properfj returned to its owners. As a concluding argument, Secretary Secre-tary Aguirre slated that the government govern-ment owns 66 per cent of the railway rail-way stock, and that the demands of the minority stockholders as repre-l sented by the British protest are not legal. |