OLD MINE LAW
OF MEXICO SAID
TO BE ILLEGAL
Foreign Oil Interests Based
Protests Under Decree
of 1884
Mexico City, Sept. 9.—The min
ing law of 1884 is unconstitutional
and illegally excepts hydrocarbon
ates in the soil and subsoil from the
national domain, aocording to a let
ter from Jose Vazquez Schiaffino,
chief of the petroleum section of the
Department of Industry and Com
merce, in El Universal. Protest by
foreign oil interests against alleged
confiscatory oil decrees is based on
rights acquired under this law.
In framing the oil law initiative,
sent by President Carranza to Con
gress last November for developing
Article 2 7 of the Constitution, Mr.
Schiaffino said, his department was
impelled by the highest motives and
sought to protect vested interests
and investments. He asserted that
the reading of the transitory provi
sions of this initiative would show
that, in regard to vested interests
created by the protection of former
laws, only a simple tax was imposed.
With regard to the mining law
of 1884, his statement said: "This
department has not interpreted
capriciously in a thousand different
ways Article 27; but in only one way,
the revindication of the dominion of
the nation over the h.vdroearbonates
of the soil aqd subsoil and its in
corporation into the mining regime
which always has been in force in
Mexico since the time of the Span
ish domination, and from which it
was illegally excepted by an uncon
stitutional law (the mining law of
1 SS4)."
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TUESDAY EVENING,
MANY GERMANS
STILL PRISONERS
French Treated Them Most
Harshly, Declares Daniel
Stuecklen
Weimar, Germany, Sept. 9.—Dan
iel Stuecklen, a member of the Na
tional Assembly, recently told the
Social Democratic party, of which
-he is a leader, that there were 340,-
000 German prisoners of war in
French hands, 195,000 in English
bands, 50,000 in American and 20,-
000 military and 30,000 civil pris
oners in Siberia.
The French, Stuecklen asserted,
treated German prisoners more
harshly than any of the other na
tions. He said there were no com
plaints to make regarding the treat
ment of prisoners by the authorities
of the other countries.
. Private German charities, he an
nounced, had raised 10,000,000
marks for prisoners and the gov
ernment had provided 150,000,000
marks for them. "Every prlsoncr
on returning home," he said, "will
i-eeeivo 300 marks relief money un
less he Is accused of treason in dc
i.L.iiiig irom the army and going
over to the enemy. Six hundred
marks will be given prisoners in
exceptional cases if the community
is willing to furnish 150 of that
amount.
"After being discharged and de
mobilized each prisoner receives a
gratuity of 50 marks and pay for
eight weeks, which equals another
300 marks. Germany will take sim
ilar measures for returning German
civilians."
A hospital train from Kumania
brought 23 wounded German officers
who had been interned at Temesvar.
including Generals Koch and Schochl
PLANS SURVEY OF
OCCUPIED ZONE
American Army in Germany
Will Act For Industry's
-Benefit
With the American Forces in
Germany, Sept. 9.—An industrial
' survey of the occupied areas of Ger
many is to be made this summer for
! the benefit of the United States Gov
-1 ernment. Information gathered as
! a result of the survey, which will
i require a year or more to complete,
I is to be available at the Department
| of Commerce in Washington and is
I to have a bearing on the future
: commercial relations between the
| United States and Germany.
Offices of representatives of the
I Department of Commerce were
j opened recently at Cologne, In the
i British area, and in Coblenz, head
i quarters of the American forces in
j Germany. The Cologne office is in
! charge of H. T. Noyes, who has
! been attached to the Interallied
! Uhinclands Commission. Mr. Noyes
| will also look after American busi-
I ness interests in the British zone.
The survey is being made under
direction of Chauncey D. Snow,
j commercial attache of the American
embassy in Paris, who will make his
in Coblenz for some
time.
j JAP GUN WORKERS QUIT
j Tokio, Sept. 9.—Six thousand five
'hundred arsenal operatives -have
I struck, demanding wage increases.
I Troops have been called out to
I guard arsenals throughout the
I country. v
BAHBISBURG TELEGKXPH
STAMP ALBUM
MAKING HISTORY
Poland's Newest Contribution
Is Series of Six
Stamps
Copenhagen, Sept. 9. Items of
historical interest are being added
almost daily to the story of New
Europe as told serially on the pages
of the stamp album.
Poland's newest contribution to
this record is a scries of six postage
stamps, commemorative of the con
vocation of the National Diet.
Among them is the first stump por
trait of Ignace Puderewski as pres
ident of the Polish Republic.
The Lettish government has is
sued three stamps marking the de
livery of itiga from the Bolshevists.
They portray two figures, presumably
representing Kiga and Lettonia, em
bracing beiore the walls of a city.
The seventh century of the union
of Esthonia with Denmark uccounts
for the issuance of 3,500 specimen
stamps, of restricted validity, in the
republic of Esthonia. They were
on sale for three days only. Because
ot the adoption of a new currency
unit in the republic, new stamps are
being prepared for distribution and
sale.
"German Austria," the residue of
the former Austrian empire, has is
sued stamps of distinctive design
from the state printery at Vienna.
President Masaryk's portrait is to
appear on a new issue in prepara
tion in Czeclio-Slovakia. Serbia-
Croatia, Slavonia, the Rumanian Pos
tal Agency in Constantinople and
Armenia have all contributed to this
pictorial stamp album record of the
J recent march of world events.
| Middletown
Borough Cemetery
Improvements Planned
The Middletown Cemetery Asso
ciation of town, contemplates mak
ing some improvements to the
cemetery. One of them will be a
new iron fence along Union street,
and a new driveway entrance to the
cemetery. Four members of the
association made a recent trip to
various towns. They were S C.
Young, S. C. Peters, B. F. Brandt
and Eugene Laverty.
Miss Esther Flom was tendered
a birthday surprise in honor of her
second birthday, at the home of her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Flom,
South Union street. Among those
present were: Mrs. Oscar Jacobs,
Ethel, Esther and Beatrice Berman,
Arthur and Leonard Berman, Miss I
Mary Whealand, Mrs. E. H. Klahr,
Misses Leah and Sarah Young, of
town, and Mrs. George Bowman
Kingston. She received a number
of beautiful gifts.
Claude Witman, who was the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. 11. B. Etter,
Pine street, for the past two weeks,
returned to hi 3 home at Philadel
phia.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Balsbaugh,
daughter Esther, of Philadelphia,
and Mrs. Lewis Schaeffer, of Bird
in-Hand, are spending some time
in town, as the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Bcachler, North Union
street.
The Middletown Praying Band
will meet at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jeremiah Bailey, Canal street,
Royalton, this evening, at 7.30
o'clock.
The hike that the Sunday School
class of J. A. S. Quickel. which had
been arranged for this evening, to
the home of Mrs. Clarence Poor
man, Kingston, has been postponed
until Thursday evening.
The Women's Home and Foreign
Missionary Society of the St. Pet
er's Lutheran Church, will meet in
the Parish House, this evening at
7.30 o'clock.
Charles Gundy, who spent the
past year overseas, was mustered
out of service, and returned to the
home of his parents. Martin Gundy,
Royalton.
The Ladles' Bible class of the
Church of God. and taught by J.
B. Martin, will hold its regular
monthly meeting at the home of
Mrs. William Winters, Water street,
this evening, at 7.30 o'clock.
The regular meeting of the Wo
man's Missionary Societv of the
Presbyterian Church will he held
at the manse. West Main street, on
Wednesday afternoon at 2.30
o'clock, and will be a "rally" meet
ing.
The Ladies' Bible class of the
Church of God, taught by Mrs. O.
M. Kraybill, will hold Its regular
monthly meeting at the home of
Mrs. Fred Beck. Hoffers Extension,
this evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Bernestein, of
Baltimore, Md„ are spending some
time in town as the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. David Bloomson, Russell
avenue.
William Whitman, who spent the
weekend In town, as the guest of
his brother, C. E. Whitman, and
family. North Union street, return
ed to his home at Lancaster.
Ishii Is Slated
For British Post
Washington.' Sept. 9. Advices
from Japan to-day say Viscount Ishii
formerly ambasssador to the United
States, probably will become Am
bassador to Great Britain in succes
slon to Baron C. Hinda, who, it is
reported, will retire.
Kel Shtdehara, the new Japanese
Ambassador to the United States, is
one of the youngest Japanese to rise
to an ambnssadoriaf post, being only
47 years old. He entered the gov
ernment service on his graduation
from the Law College of the Tokio
Imperial University in 1895 and has
been in office ever since. He served
first with the Department of Agri
culture, but within a few months
entered the Foreign Office. In 1899
he was named Consul-elcve at Che
mulpo, In the samo year being trans
ferred to London with the same
rank. In the capacity of full Consul
he served at Anvers and Fusln,
when he was recalled to the Home
Office and made Its secretary in
1905.
Armed Civilians
Attack Military Convoy
London, Sept. 9.—lt Is reported
that a large party of armed civil
ians attacked a military convoy
near Fermoy Bunday evening. The
civilians seized twenty-flvo rifles and
escaped in automobiles.
This Is apparently distinct from
an attack on Sunday upon a party
of cighten soldiers returning to bar
racks from cburch, which was re
ported from Belfast.
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BOSTON POLICE
CALL FOR STRIKE
Hour Set For Walk-Out Is
That of the Evening
Roll Call
Boston, Sept. 9.—The Boston po
licemen's union has voted to call a
strike effective at 5.45 o'clock this
afternoon.
The vote was announced as having
been "practically unanimous." Offi
cers of the union said that they had
held in check with great difficulty
a loudly expressed sentiment in
favor of starting the strike early this
morning.
The hour set for the strike is that
of the evening roll call. At that
time the day patrolmen complete
their work and the night force starts
In.
The strike vote is the culmination
ot" a controversy between the patrol
men and Commissioner Curtis over
.the formation of the union. Several
weeks ago the police commissioner
promulgated an order that the mem
bers of the force should not become
affiliated with any outside organiza
tion. Immediately afterward the
patrolmen formed the policemen's
union, which was granted a charter
by the American Federation of La
bor.
Commissioner Curtis brought
charges against nineteen officers and
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members of the union of having
violated his order, and at the request
of counsel for the union, himself
conducted their trial.
At roll call yesterday he informed
the members of the department
that he had suspended sentence of
the nineteen men, but that they
would be suspended from the depart
ment until sentence was imposed.
A citizens' committee, appointed
by Mayor Peters, after having Com
missioner Curtis and the patrolmen,
recommended to the major that the
union sever tts arniiation with the
Federation of Labor, that wages and
working conditions be adjusted by
a committee to be appointed by the ]
mayor, the commission and the <
union, and that there be no discrlm- |
inntion against members of the
union.
Trying to Make
London Big Sugar
Market of Europe j
London, Sept. 9.—An effort is
being made to make London "the
sugar market of Europe" In p!ace
of Hamburg, Germany, which be
fore the war was the center of the
trade, handling vast quantities of
home grown as well as imported
sugar. When the British blockade
isolated Germany, London became
the pivotal point, and exporters are
doing all they can to make the
change permanent.
Every week large quantities of
sugar reach here of which only a
SEPTEMBER 9, 1919.
small portion Is taken by the Sugar
Commission for home consumption.
The rest is re-exported. But for this
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