Even as we left Orange Walk following that press conference at the B.S.C.F.A., News Five received word that unknown persons had torched cane-fields in Libertad owned by B.S.I. We were unable to get comment from factory representatives, but reliable sources tell us that a total of nine acres of mature cane, approximately three hundred and fifty-seven tons, went up in smoke. B.S.I., through fields that it owns and rents in the Orange Walk and Corozal districts, controls seven thousand five hundred acres of cane.
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