PARLIAMENTARY PISTOLS.
FIGHT IN MEXICAN HOUSE. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies was the scene last month of a stormy debate which reached its climax in a wild exchange of insults and pistol siiots between enraged deputies. A prominent Socialist leader, Senor Luis Morones, was wounded in the abdomen, probably fatally, and another deputy, Senor Leopoldo Guerrero, received two bullets in the chest. The affair began with a quarrel between Senor Pavon Silva, a member of the Confederate Group, and a Socialist. Both men left the Chamber with pistols in their hands, and their friends followed them into the corridor. General Jose Sanchez, the Agrarian leader and former Governor of l J uobla, then mounted the speaker's stand and demanded that Senor Morones should retract personal charges he had made three nights before. Unless this retraction were made, the general added, he would expect a settlement on the field of honour. Senor Morones announced his willingness to name his seconds. Immediately tho followers of both men flocked to the corridor with pistols in readiness. Shooting became general and tho Chamber was adjourned. General Sanchez escaped uninjured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 1210, 7 January 1925, Page 12
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185PARLIAMENTARY PISTOLS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 1210, 7 January 1925, Page 12
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