A REVOLUTION IN MEXICO.
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Mexico, December 31. Instigated by the priests, though for what cause is at present unknown, the populace of this city rose against the Government, and on Thursday an immense mob, aided by the garrison of three barracks, attacked the palace of the President, General Porfirio Diaz. A bloody conflict ensued, in which the Government forces were eventually victorious, though three generals were killed. Two thousand of the insurgents were captured, and 72 of the prießts who were encouraging the assailants were killed. Two hundred more priests have since been arrested, and ordered to be Bhot. Among those ordered for execution is an archbishop. A DENIAL. London, December 31. It is now stated that the account of the riot and massacre in Mexico previously cabled is a hoax. It originated through a paper in the City of Mexico publishing a detailed account of a revolution as tbe possible result if the anti-clerical policy of the Government were persisted in. The correspondents of the European journals accepted the story as a fact, and wired it without taking the precaution of ascertaining whether it was authentic-
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 879, 4 January 1889, Page 26
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