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y. There is no recognized authority, nothing which by the extreme of courtesy may be called a government. The action taken against the Mexican Herald and its American owners is in open defiance of explicit orders from their own [omission] President, Lagos Cházaro, who unfortunately is in Toluca and to whom numerous appeals for protection have been made. We have appealed repeatedly to the Government for the protection which we feel to be our due and we again ask that effective and immediate measures be taken to afford us that protection. It is certain that the representations so far made by the…