BAN BY MEXICO
JAPANESE OIL RIGHTS SCRAP METAL REFUSED (Reed. Oct. 23. 2 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, Oct. 22. A high Mexican Government official announced that the President, General Cardenas has decided to cancel the oil concession granted to Japan a few days ago as an “act of continental solidarity.” The official also revealed that the Mexican Government had rejected a Japanese bid for 18,000 tons of scrap iron because of the tension in the Pacific' and because it did not want it to appear that Mexico was selling scrap to Japan which might be used against the United States.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20385, 23 October 1940, Page 8
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