BRITAIN AND MEXICO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19198, 14 June 1924, Page 10

BRITAIN AND MEXICO

RELATIONS SEVERED. BRITISH CHARGE D'AFFAIRES EXPELLED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, MEXICO CITY, June 12. (Received Juno 13, at 11.40 p.m.) Mcxica has severed relations with Britain by ordering the expulsion of Mr Gordon Cummins, the British Charge D’Affaires, who is how hidden in the' British Legation, which is surrounded by police waiting an opportunity to convey the formal notice of expulsion. This lias been caused by the friction between the British and Mexican Governments, and also by a number of letters written by Mr Cummins to friends in England, in which he used terms and descriptions that injured tho dignity of Mexico. Officials gained access to these letters and gathered other proofs purporting to show Mr Cummins’s continued efforts to create friction between the Governments. —A. and N.Z. Cable.