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Rioters Demand That Churches be Reopened

SEVERAL PERSONS HURT United Press Association—By Electrlo Telexraph.—Copyrlarh t. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 32. Disorder and the use of troops nr# reported from Orizaba. Thousands or poured into the town do- ' manding the reopening of the churches. Several persons were hurt. A pillar of one church fell when crowds broke open the doors. Laver a group entered another church, which had been converted into a fire departj iuent, and rolled away the. engines. I iTroops finally ousted the invaders, who j;carried banners inscribed: “We die, but God never dies.” ’ Twenty thousand persons held j menacing manifestations around tho I Town Hall, leading the authorities to | announce that some churches would bo permitted to reopen. Fourteen thousand persons broke into churches at Cordoba and rang the : bells exultantly. | A railway booking-clerk says a lot of people wuste his time by asking where they cun go for a certain amount. And wc suppose he is too polite to tell their

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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 7

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Rioters Demand That Churches be Reopened Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 7

Rioters Demand That Churches be Reopened Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 7

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