CHURCH AND STATE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 5

CHURCH AND STATE

THE MEXICAN DISPUTE.

PRESIDENT STANDS FIRM. REPORTS OF DISTURBANCES. as; caulk—l’h.jiss association— copraiGiri NEW YORK, Aug. o. A message rrom Mexico City says that President Cailes reiterated that it is the intention of the (Government “to enforce without tear of interdicts or supernatural punishment” the constitution’s religious provisions. This was in the course of a reply to a- telegram from President Leguia, 'of Peru, requesting the establishment of harinony between the Mexican Government and the Catholic Church.

Pessimism regarding the conflict increased to-day by bemtecl reports of serious disturbances in outlying districts.

Six persons are reported to have been killed and fourteen wounded at Guadalajara, where the troops routed a mob at a church. One officer and two privates were among the killed. At Torreon one was killed and, six were wounded.

in a disturbance on Sunday evening at Irapnata a woman, believed to be a Protestant, was beheaded by a crowd of people, who were excited by the suspension of the. Catholic services. AMERICAN RIGHTS TO BE PROTECTED. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.. Commenting on the Philadelphia Dispatch’s statement, the officials of the State Department repeated that every precaution will be- taken to safeguard the treaty rights of Americans in Mexico.

ARCHBISHOPS DENOUNCE REGULATIONS.

HONOLULU, Aug. 5. Archbishop Mannix, who is en route to Australia, commenting on the Mexican situation, said it was the most outrageous persecution of individual liberty in recent years. If they had a grievance against the Church the Government should have used other means against it.

NEW YORK, Aug. 5

Archbishop Duhig said: This involves the issue we’ve been fighting ever since the beginning. The Catholic Church cannot be made a child of the State.