MEXICAN TROOPS DEFEAT CATHOLICS
“FOR GOD AND COUNTRY,” SLOGAN OF SLAIN REBEL LEADER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. “Sydney Sun” Cable. (Received January IS, 1.30 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, January 17. Federal troops captured the town of Tepatilan after a bloody fight and the death of nearly 100 in the Jalisco district, the centre of what the Government calls the Catholic rebellion. Seventy of the dead were rebels: They laid siege to Tepatilan, but. relieving Government forces arrived and drove them off with many wounded. The Government is arming the peasants in the States where the rebels are active. • The; Catholic Episcopate denies that it is responsible for the outbreaks. Senor De Maso Bazzara, a prominent Catholic leader, who was heading the revolt in the Mesquital district, under the banner “ F#r God and Country,” was killed in battle.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18057, 18 January 1927, Page 4
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