BRITAIN AND MEXICO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19205, 23 June 1924, Page 7

BRITAIN AND MEXICO

DEPARTURE OF MR CUMMINS. LATIN-AMERICAN DISCOURTESY. Pros* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MEXICO CITY, Juno 21. (Received Juno 22, at 5.5 p.m.) Mr Cummins, British Charge d’Affairc-s, has left for the United States en route for home. When tjie train pulled cut a score of Britishers gathered at the station to say farewell. They shouted “ Hip, hip, hurrah for Mr Cummins. Long live England.” With the exception of the Chilean Minister all the LatinAmerican Diplomatists who are stationed here refrained from bidding Mr Cummins farewell, but the members of the United States Embassy and European representatives were present.—Reuter. DEFENCE OF MRS EVANS. REASONS FOR MEXICAN HOSTILITY SAN FRANCISCO, June 21. (Received June 22, at 5.5 p.m.) The difficulties of Mr Herbert Cummins in Mexico City were duo to his official efforts to prevent the confiscation of « property belonging to Mrs Rosalie Evans, a British subject, according to a statement made by Mrs W. J. I’ettus, a sister of Mrs Evans. Mrs Bettes says that (Mr Cummins’s protests against the treatment of Mrs Evans brought him into disfavour. “ My sister's husband,’’ she said, “is nowdead. He was president of the Bank of London in Mexico, and since his death my sister has been supporting herself from her ranch despite constant harassment by the Mexican Government. Even letters to Mrs Evans wore stopped, and once her ranch was surrounded by members of the agrarian party, stealing land on orders from the Government. Mr Cummins protested vigorously against such treatment.” Mrs Pettits added that her sister would stay on the ranch until she was given undisputed possession, even at the risk of losing her 1 life.—Reuter.