MORE LAND SEIZED
MEXICAN EXPROPRIATION NEW YORK, March 27 Three American corporations' whose etock is widely held in the Eastern States have been deprived by presidential decree of 1,500,000 acres of land in Mexico valued at millions of dollars. The Mexican Government evaded the provisions of the agreement with the United States under which the holders of expropriated land can appeal for compensation by tho simple device of contending that the companies concerned never possessed a valid title to tho lands, although they had occupied them for 35 years, paid Mexico 1,000,000 dollars for thorn, built a million-dollar railway across them and spent large sums on workers' dwellings and other improvements. Tho companies' workers petitioned against the expropriation. The Government retorted that the workers must bo ready to suffer if their suffering advanced the Mexican revolution.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 8
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136MORE LAND SEIZED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 8
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