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Show OUTLAWS 5IEZE ANOTHER TOWN CONSUL REPORTS THAT BANDITS RELEASED FORTY AMERICANS HELD FOR RANSOM Rebels Threaten Return to District For Ransom American Council Reports to Washington Officials Washington. .Mexican rebels who seized the Aguada camp of the Cortez Oil company in the Tampico region Sunday, holding the property and forty American employes for 15,000 pesos ransom, withdrew Monday without with-out dnmage or injury to the employes, but with threats to return, Consul Shaw at Tampico advised the ' state department. The department received a later message, however, which said the same rebels Thursday seized a camp of the La Corona Oil company, u Dutch-British concern, in the same vicinity and were holding eight-five, including six Americans. The dispatch did not indicate whether ransom had been paid in the case of the Aguada camp, which is an American owned concern. On the strength of the second message, sent Thursday, the state department directed di-rected the embassy in Mexico City to make new demands on the Mexican government for protection of the Americans employed by the Dutch-British Dutch-British company. |