MEXICAN AFFAIR

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1924, Page 7

MEXICAN AFFAIR

MR. CUMMINS LEAVES

THE STORY OF MRS. EVANS'S

RANCH

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COI'YRICHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

MEXICO CITY, 21st June.

Mr. Cummins, the British Charge d'Affaires, has left for the "United States, en route home. When the train pulled out a score of Britishers who had gathered at the station to say farewell cheered Mr. Cummins and shouted, "Long Live England !" With the exception of the Chilian Minister, all the Latin-American diplomatists refrained from bidding Mr. Cummins farewell, but the members of the United States Embassy and European representatives were present.

SAN FRANCISCO, 21st June. The difficulties of Mr. Herbert Cummins in Mexico City were due to his official efforts to prevent tlio confiscation of the property belonging to Mrs. Eosaline Evans, a British subject, according to a statement by Mrs. W.. J. Pettus, sister of Mi-s. Evans.

, Mrs. Pettus says that Mr. Cummins's protests against Mrs. Evans's treatment brought him into disfavour. "My sister's husband is now dead. He was president of the Bank of London in Mexico. My sister has been supporting herself from her\-anch, in spite of constant harassment by the Mexican Government."

Even her letters to Mrs. Evans were stopped, and once her ,ranch was surrounded by members of tiie Agrarian Party, stealing land on orders from the Government. Mr. Cummins protsted vigorously against such treatment, and Mrs. Pettus said that her sister would stay on the ranch until she was given undisputed possession, even at the risk of losing her life.