Ciudad Obregón

Hurricane-force wind gusts will also be experienced on the Mexican mainland as Polo makes a second landfall early Tuesday.

This includes the Ciudad Obregon area.

As Polo gradually unwinds and presses inland, heavy rain will become the main risk to lives and property through midweek.

Along the path of Polo, a general two to eight inches of rain is forecast to fall, with an AccuWeather Local Storm Max of eighteen inches.

The Harding administration, as might have been expected, firmly championed American oil rights as opposed to the Mexican constitution.

Without a guarantee of American rights, the Washington government would not recognize the Obregon government, which, by the way, had taken office in Mexico in 1920, after a new revolution ending in the flight and murder of Carranza.

Though Obregon showed himself a capable president and established order in the greater part of Mexico and instituted commendable administrative reforms, and insisted that Article 27 would not be applied retroactively to the prejudice of oil concessions acquired prior to 1917, nevertheless, he was denied official recognition.

As the New York loan market was thereby closed to him, Obregon was willing to go far in an effort to obtain recognition.

In 1922, his finance minister reached an agreement with a New York banker, Mr. Thomas Lamont of the Morgan firm, for resumption of interest payments on Mexico's debt of half a billion dollars.

The following year, Obregon came to a settlement with the United States government whereby lands obtained by Americans before 1917 were to be exempted from land reform laws, and mineral and oil rights conceded to Americans and exploited before May 1, 1917, were to be respected.

In other words, the Mexican nationalization program would apply only to properties acquired since 1917.

Further, the claims of the United States for a huge sum as damages for injuries done to Americans and their property during the tumultuous years 1910 to 1920, and the claims of Mexico for damages caused by the occupation of Veracruz and by the Pershing expedition, were to be settled by mixed commissions.