MEXICAN AFFAIRS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 August 1926, Page 7

MEXICAN AFFAIRS

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.

LODGE EMPHATIC PROTEST

AGAINST RELIGIOUS DECREES

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

Received 1.40 p.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Aug. 5. A Philadelphia despatch says: Reminding the United States Government, “that President Calles had insulted, degraded and expelled American, citizens, men and women, under circumstances abhorrent to our conception of constitutional government,” the Knights of CJolumbus at a. convention adopted a resolution- protesting against the Mexican President’s religions policy. They said: “We warn our fellow American citizens that they cannot endure, at their very doorstep, the Russinnising of Mexico with impunity.”—A. and N.Z. Assn.

PLACARDS TORN DOWN. A RESENTFUL SENORITA. TROUBLE BREWING. MEXICO CITY, July 31. Senorita Rosa Padilla, the 18-year-old daughter of wealthy parents, has been arrested and charged with destroying the Government notices of tho new religious laws which were placed on the walls of the famous Guadalupe Basilica.

There are grim forebodings of serioufc trouble brewing for the coining week-end.

Leading Roman Catholics had intend taking over the churches when the edict became effective, _ but the Government announces that it will confiscate them all when they are abandoned by the priests, in accordance with the new .law.

The United States Government has determined upon a “hands-off” policy if disorders occur in Mexico. Tho State Department takes the view that the matter is strictly a. Mexican domestic one.

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ACCEPTED GOVERNMENT’S REGULATIONS. Received 1.40 p.m. to-day. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 5. Guisear Valencia, Bishop of Vera Cruz, has issued a manifesto stating that Anguinao, the priest who accepted the Government regulations, has been excommunicated. - Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.