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90. The foreigners want a status quo until Germany is defeated. Then, then indeed, something will have to be done to settle the jurisdiction over the oil territory. Tampico oil is a world necessity. Anarchy, another German ally, cannot rule forever. Where there are smouldering flames of discontent there will be smoke.

Before I went to Tampico the Chief Mexican Manager of one of the largest oil producing companies gave me a memorandum regarding the oil supplies of the Allied powers. I print this here as it contains a great deal of valuable information and shows how vital Tampico is to England and the United States in the war against Germany.

The writer is a man of very firm convictions and the interpretations of clauses in the Mexican Constitution and his opinions regarding the government are his, not mine! I present the memorandum here because it is the statement of an expert.

1. Petroleum and gasoline are the two most important war materials to-day. Neither aeroplanes, tanks, motor trucks, submarines, chasers, destroyers nor battleships can run one foot without one or the other.

2. To survey the world's production of crude