OPEN CHURCHES!
MEXICAN TROUBLE.
Clashes with Police Follow
Demonstrations. THOUSANDS OF CATHOLICS. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 2 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, February 12. Disorder and use of troops is reported from Orizaba. Thousands of Catholics poured into the town demanding reopening' of churches. Several persons were hurt as a pillar in one church fell when crowds broke open the doors.
Later, a group entered another church which had been converted into a fire station and rolled away the engines. Troops finally ousted the invaders, who carried banners inscribed: ''We die but God never dies!"
Twenty thousand persons held menacing manifestations around the Town Hall. Leading authorities announce that some churches would be permitted to reopen.
Fourteen thousand persons broke into the churches in Cordoba and rang tho bells exultantlv.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 9
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