The Mexican Oil Situation.

The legal facts regarding the oil situation in Mexico should be clearly understood by the American people if the true meaning of the rather vague newspaper accounts of the dispute between the Mexican Government and foreign oil producers is to be grasped. The dispute is not a local question which can be settled by the Mexican authorities alone. Already protests have been made by the American, British, French, and Dutch Governments against legislation proposed by Mexico, on the ground that it is confiscatory of the property of their citizens.