MEXICAN CIVIL WAR.
■ ' -— REBELS CAPTURE CULIACAN ANOTHER STATE SECEDES. * A STRUGGLE FOR LOOT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 12.5 a.m.) A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. April 16. According to a message from El Paso General Flores, the Mexican insurgent leader, has captured Culiacan, the capital of the western State of Sinaloa. The Mexican Government has announced a. revolt- in the State of Michoacan. Giving evidence concerning the anarchical condition of Mexico to the Senate Committee which is investigating Mexican affairs, Mr. Franklin Lane, ex-Secretary of the Interior, said that Mr. Wilson's policywas fatal. He imagined that the parties in Mexico were struggling for liberty; in reality they were struggling for loot. The United States has refused the Mexican Government's request to allow the movement of Mexican troops in United i States territory in order to attack the j State of Sonora, which is in revolt against the Federal Government, and has pro- j claimed its independence. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17449, 20 April 1920, Page 5
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