MEXICAN TRAIN WRECK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 April 1927, Page 9

MEXICAN TRAIN WRECK.

ATTACK LED BY PRIESTS. EY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. MEXICO CITY, April 22. Although the earlier reports overestimated the number of dead as the result of the bandit outrage, it is nowreported that there are one- hundred read, including women and children. Eye-witnesses, including seven foreigners who escaped unhurt, picture as being even greater than that indicated by the first accounts. They also confirm the statement that the attack was led bv priests. General Amaro, Minister of War, at the head of the three regiments of infantry and cavalry, is scouring the mountains for trdces of \the Rebels who during the massacre, uttered blood-curdling shouts: “Viva Cristo Rey!” (Long live Christ the King). Bishop Leopold, acting on behalf of the Mexican Episcopate, has issued a statement denying President Calles charges that the rebels acted under orders from the Escopate. He says that if priests took part they did so without the permission of the Episcopate. ANOTHER DISAVOWAL.

Received 9.14. a.m. to-day. MEXICO CITY, April 22. Achbishop Ruizyflores has issued a statement denying Catholic Episcopate organised the bandit train outrage, at Jalisco, and declaring that if the Priests participated in the attack, it was without the knowledge, of the church. He said that if it were true that the assailments on the train committed the cruelties which the government alleged, they deserved the reprobation of The entire world. —Sydney Sun Cable.