ALLEGED MEXICAN PLOT
ATTACK ON COMMUNISTS IU.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) MEXICO CITY, 30th November. Claiming that they had uncovered a plot to assassinate the President-elect, Senor Avila Camacho, Federal soldiers raided the Communist headquarters under two blocks of the former National Palace while almost simultaneously the police in another section of the capital engaged in a fierce gun battle while attempting to search a house where it was suspected that a second subversive group was meeting. It is reported that two people were killed and two wounded in the latter incident, and an army major was killed and at least two wounded in the former incident. The police claim that the plotters planned to assassinate Senor Camacho and start an insurrection during his inauguration to-morrow in the presence of the United States Vice-President-elect, Mr Henry Wallace.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 2 December 1940, Page 3
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