LIMITING THE CLERGY
RIOT IN MEXICAN TOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) MEXICO CITY’, June 1. Because the authorities of Durango City limited to 25 the number of clergymen allowed to represent each denomination, 3000 enraged Roman Catholics stormed the Provincial Palace. Ten were killed. The trouble grew out of what was intended as a demonstration of protest against the new law. Prominent Roman Catholics marched to the Palace to ask the Governor to rescind the measure. A great crowd gathered while the spokesmen were awaiting admittance and listened to fiery speeches. Becoming excited, the crowd began a bombardment of the palace with stones. The guards answered the attack by discharging their rifles, whereupon the crowd rushed the building. In the shooting three policemen and several civilians were killed. A book of etiquette printed in France in the fourteenth century advised the man of fashion to wash his hands every day and to wash his face "almost as often." A British Army order announces that the march of the Royal Army Corps is in future to be "Bonnie Nefl," in substitution for "Her Bright Evea Haunt Me Soil."
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Southland Times, Issue 18970, 18 June 1923, Page 5
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192LIMITING THE CLERGY Southland Times, Issue 18970, 18 June 1923, Page 5
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