THE VILLA SYSTEM OF MOTOR TAX.
/British motorists who grumble at the restrictions upon motoring which the Government nas imposed owing to war conditions do not know when they are well off. A "state of war" exists in Mexico, too, and General Villa, on a recent occasion, calmly annexed all the motor cars he could find between the City of Mexico and Chihuahua. It is said that several hundred cars were thus confiscated—not, be it noted, for the use of the army, but for the purpose of raising revenue for the insurgent chief, who loaded them upon railway trains and sent them across the border into Texas for sale to1 second-hand dealers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 6, 8 January 1916, Page 12
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