London, Feb. 18.
United States interests are agitated by the Japanese penetration of the Mexican petroleum industry, says the Mexico City correspondent of "The lumes."
A Japanese-owned company, with a 10,000 acre concession near an expropriated oilfields, he adds, is attempting to obtain a further 20,000 acre con-
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The Japanese company, financed at $15,000,000, he continues, plans to build pipe-lines from oilfields on the east coast to Salina Cruz. on the Pacific coast. If an important field is discovered on the east coast, he declares, the possibility of transporting petroleum through the Panama Cana! vemains.—Reuter.
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