NOTE FOR MEXICO

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12023, 29 December 1924, Page 7

NOTE FOR MEXICO

RECOGNITION OOZING.* BIG INTERESTS PRESSING., Australian .and N.Z.. Cable Association. (Received December 29,,5.6 p.m.) ■; j LONDON, .December 27. There, are indications that'the Foreign Office, early in the New Year, wul send a stringent communication to Mexico on the subject of the murder of Mrs Evans. Mr. Austen. Chamberlain has inquired exhaustively into AngloMexican affairs) particularly the Evans incident. 1 Financial and commercial interests have been pressing to secure Mexican recognition, and urged the Government to open the way to an aroidhble settlement of all differences. Mr Chamberlain,* however made it clear that the Government intends to press demands for suitable amends, , (There are many Conservatives who believe • that the Government must take a firm stand in connection with-the Evans affair, in order to secure a proper respect for the rights of British citizens in' Mexico.H Rosalie Evans, widow of a former' President of the Bank of Loudon, was shot dead in the vicinity of Tenmelu. can, Mexico, in August last. She was killed while driving a buggy, and John Strauss, the German manager' of the Evans hacienda, who accompanied her, was seriously wounded. The slayers, believed to be agrarians incited. - by anti-foreign agitators, escaped with a pay-roll of 2000 pesos, which Strauss was carrying;