Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-09-16 | Page 2 | Two Die as Mexico Fetes Independence

TWO DIE AS MEXICO FETES INDEPENDENCE MEXICO CITY Sept 16 UP Ul Mexico pledged pledged- anew by President Lazaro Cardenas to continental solidarity wound up her two-day two Independence celebration in comparative com cam quiet Monday after a night of sporadic clashes i in which guns clubs stones and firecrackers ers took a toll toli o of two dead and 59 injured Hospital authorities regarded the he casualties as small in n the wide nation-wide observance of the independence Mexico gained from Spain years ago One death and a a majority of the Injured were reported among the p persons who surged about the national palace Sunday night The other de death th occurred in a short-lived short clash In an n outlying district of of the the- capital