Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-19 | Page 24 | Three Wounded in Mexican Riot

IR AEE 1 I y IN MEXICAN AN RIOT RIDI I J i Injured as Troops Fire Into Crowd Resisting I Enforcement of Law Lawi II I. I i MEXICO CITY March 19 AP rr Special dispatches from San Luis Potosi that two women and andi If say i rib n man were wounded during a aiA iA of growing out of the popular be- be that thal the authorities intended to arrest tho the Catholic bishop 41 y Yesterday afternoon municipal P- P PT t. t T gendarmes unexpectedly appeared churches Ex Ext V v p-v at nt t all the Catholic t led ed crowds congregated The marr ma- ma rr city rUy ot of them were women Then flowed allowed a demonstration which a al- al alost ost tf reached the tho proportions of oC a notwithstanding an announce announce- t t that the gendarmes s had on only een Instructed to fulfill orders to gnit it tho the umber of ot priests in the 1 lurches hes C CALL LL TROOPS S de demonstration culminated In Ine ine e authorities calling out federal ps with machine guns The wd immediately attacked sols sol- sol fa s With stones The troops fired two Vo women and one man were The ad ices say that as news spread crowds began to toine to toi ine i. i ig Into the city from the neigh- neigh Wig country The priests urged d l people to be quiet and refrain retrain Jon pr i violence J The ie streets of San Luis Luls Potosi c crowded with excited epple ogle ope however until a a. late hour hourt st t night The people frequently eyed red ed the troops patrolling the Peets with automobiles an and ma- ma 1 ne guns Many persons congre- congre 0 ted led before the residence of the shop ishop op These included women th bas baskets ts filled with stones l e crowds remained despite aps ap- ap s from Bishop Migel De La Lata Lathat lr ta a that they disperse M MUST ST OBEY LAW firing pring the night Governor Abel eta ip issued a proclamation saying ad lad never been intended to arg arthe ar- ar g t the the bishop and that the au- au were not enemies of re- re ion on The proclamation added jit t the people must obe obey the law lawan lawand an and l that the authorities intend j D. D enforce the provisions of the constitution with regard to tb churches A dispatch to the department of the the he interior here from the governor of o San Luis Potosi says the trouble began because of a recent decree limiting the number of Catholic priests to eighty These five ministers were Wele required 10 make a certain application to toIle the Ile local authorities None one complied com com- 1 4 plied pIled and the authorities ordered ithe the closing of all churches 4 tJ I