MEXICAN CATHOLICS

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1928, Page 9

MEXICAN CATHOLICS

GIRL MUTILATED FOR FAITH. LONDON, April 5. Remarkable allegations about the of things in Mexico were made by Mr J. J. Donovan, of the Catholic Council for International Relations. :;i a. speech at Woolwich. Ho described Mexico as a country without religion or education, where hospitals tire closed and disease is rife, where liberty of citizenship and oven thought does not exist, and where to be a professed- member of the Roman Catholic faith and be seen tit devotions is Io run the risk of death or torture. He told of an old farmer who, suspected of harboming priests, had bis nose cut off by a rusty saw, and then, because he refused to shout. “Long live Calles,” had the skin torn from his face and from the soles of his fc"t. and was marched dying, to the n< .irr'.'- t camp. Another story was of a. girl who led a number of Aipazons io the town hall of Cuidad to demand Hie release of Catholic priests and laynum imprisoned there, effected the release and a- week later was arrested, sccurgetl by the soldiery, and then, because she shouted "Long live ChrTi,” instead of “Long live Calles,” had her fingers cut off one by out', and then one of her breasts.