MEXICAN MOVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1939, Page 5

MEXICAN MOVE

GUATEMALA AND BRITISH HONDURAS REPORT CESSION DEMAND. DEVELOPMENT IN THE OIL CONTROVERSY. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. MEXICO CITY, July 22. The entire Mexican Press gives great prominence today to reports that the Guatemalan Government has asked foi the intervention of the State Department of the United States of America to obtain from Britain the cession of British Honduras under the terms of the Anglo-Guatemalan Treaty of 1869. Guatemala, it is reported, claims that Britain violated the pact. The stories bear Washington date lines, but it is commonly reported that they were written in Mexico City and were inspired by the Mexican Govern • ment, which, in the event of cession would claim a third of the territory for what is vaguely termed historical and international reasons. Foreign observers here consider that Mexico is merely jockeying for a position in the oil controversy. The general impression is that the Mexican Government has served notice on the British Government that any too stren • uous insistence into its present intransigent attitude to the oil question might result in Mexico making things very hot for Britain in Honduras.