MASSACRE IN MEXICO
ASSASSINS SAID TO BE LED BY PRIESTS. VICTIMS NUMBER A HUNDRED. STATEMENT BY EPISCOPATE. I (Received Fridr|y, 8 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, April 22. Although earlier messages overestimated the number of dead as a result of the bandit outrage reported yesterday, it is now stated that there are’ a hundred dead, including women and children. Eyewitnesses, including seven foreigners who escaped unhurt, picture the horror as being even greater than was indicated by the first accounts. They also confirm the statement that the attack was led by priests. General Amaro, Minister of War, at the head of three regiments of infantry and cavalry, is scouring the mountains for traces of the rebels, who during the massacre uttered blood-curdling shouts: “Viva Cristo Rey” ''Long Live Christ King). Bishop Leopold, acting on behalf of the Mexican Episcopate, has issued a statement denying President Calles’s charges that the rebels acted under orders from the Episcopate. He says that if priests took part they did so without the permission of the Episcopate.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 23 April 1927, Page 5
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