Mexico City, Aug.
In the Mexican states of Sonora Jand Sinaloa 7,000 "Chinese to-day were awaiting action by the Mexican' Anti-Chinese Committee which has issued an ultimatum declaring that they must dispose of their business interests by August 25, and leave! Mexico by September i, Although President Pascual Ortiz Rubio has promised Young, the Chinese Minister to Gtexiee, that Chinese in this cause try will be. afforded " protection, eter members of the Mere artieipating An the. ansisOblnes9 ber of Deputies are " open
campaign.
Deputy Pesqueira has published 1 telegram from Governor Elm Sonora, saying. that his state "is campaigning energetically 0 as: Sure that mola single' Chinese business establishment: will remain Sonora, after. September Simultaneously with the. publics:
of the telegram President Ratio ent' to Mer Young a. copy a telegram from Governor Hits in which the latter promised prevent discrimination against Chi-hose and to protect fully all Chinese within the area of jun During recent weeks ind] sentiment Tis "been mounting rapidly in Mexico, Chinese have lad their" homes. raided. and have been the targets of numerous open threats. The. anti<Chinese Committee insists that Chinese. are seeking to evade the laws requiring that all employers in Bfexice nun ber 80 per cents of thet employees Mexicans oe. Young has made vigorous protests against. the treatment ace {raed alt countrymen in. Mex. the Antichinese Committee fs con despite pledevs of protection
tinuing te campaign, Mr. Sam Young, the Chinese Minister to Mexico, has been advised of the plight of Chinese in the two states, who were warned to dispose of their business by August 25 and leave the country—by. September 1.
Advices received by the Chinese Legation declare that 80 per cent. of the Chinese in Mexico are in trouble. Practically every Chinese business house in the state of Sonora has been closed. Many of the Chinese proprietors of grocery torts are without even food. They are unable to move stocks from their own shops or purchase food supplies for themselves and their families elsewhere.
It is alleged that the members. lof the Anti-Chinese Committee are side-tracking freight cats, _preparatory, to putting Chinese aboard country. understood that them and shipping them out of the
careful and well organised area ments have been made to forcibly eject the Chinese in Sonora and Sinsloa on September 1. So far but few Chinese have actually departed because there is nowhere for them to go—United Press.
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