MEXICAN HORROR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 124, 23 April 1927, Page 9

MEXICAN HORROR.

ONE HUNDRED DEAD.

SEARCH FOR THE REBELS. PRESIDENT’S CHARGE DENIED.

MEXICO CITY, April 22. Although earlier reports over-esti-mated the number of dead as the result of the bandit outrage, it is now reported that there are 100 dead, including women and children. _ Eyewitnesses, including seven foreigners who , escaped, unhurt,. picture the horror, as being even greater than that indicated by first accounts. They also confirm the statement that the attack was led by priests. General Amaro, Minister of War, at the head of three regiments of infantry and cavalry, is scouring the mountains for traces of the rebels who, during the massacre, uttered blood-curd-ling shouts of “Viva Cristo Reyl” '(Long live Christ King). Bishop Leopold, acting on behalf of the Mexican Episcopate, has issued a statement denying President Calles’s charges that the rebels' acted under orders from the Episcopate. He says that if priests took part they did so without permission of the Episcopate. •*—A. and N.Z. cable. ARCHBISHOP’S STATEMENT. CHURCH WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE. Received April 23, at 9.50 a.m. MEXICO CITY, April 22. Archbishop Ruizyflores has issued a statement denying that the Catholic Episcopate organised the bandit train outrage at Jalisco, and declaring that if priests participated in the attack it was without the knowledge of the church. He said that if it were true that the train assailants committed the cruelties that the Government alleged, they deserved the reprobation of the entire world.—A. and N.Z. cable.