Kellogg Welcomes Arbitration of Mexican Oil Dispute; Tension Eases in Mexico

Mexico is breathing easier after Secretary of State Kellogg announced his willingness to submit the controversy over Mexican oil and land laws to arbitration, the Associated Press reported from Mexico City on Wednesday. The immediate reaction was a subsidence of the extraordinary tension of the previous week and hope that preliminary negotiations would be conciliatory.

The New Britain Herald reported that Kellogg had said he welcomed the Robinson resolution for arbitration, but that State Department officials showed a wish not to commit themselves too far, interpreting his statement as welcoming an expression of opinion from the Senate. President Calles had indicated unofficially that he might look on arbitration as a way out.

Calles also replied to agrarian communities seeking arms to help federal troops that attempts by fanatical elements to carry out a nationwide revolution had so far failed, the Evening Star reported.