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Show REIGN OF TERROR !!J MEXIGO CITY HUNGER AND LACK OF WORK CAUSE OF RIOTING IN MEXICAN MEX-ICAN CAPITAL. City Covered With Patrols to Disperse Dis-perse Gatherings of Striking Employees Em-ployees of Electric Light and Street Railway Companies. El Paso, Texas. Reports of social discontent in Mexico are contained In a copy of El Nacional, a Carranza organ or-gan of Mexico City, -which reached here Sunday. It stated that last -week General Benjamin Hill, military commander, com-mander, of the federal district, had covered the city with patrols to disperse dis-perse gatherings of striking employees of the electric lighting and street railway rail-way company. It added that several shots had been fired and that small riots had resulted. According to the paper, Carranza met representatives of the Federation of Syndicates, the organization behind be-hind the strike, and informed them that in his opinion their action in striking was unpatriotic. Social discontent dis-content in Mexico was attributed to the influence of "socialist labor agencies." agen-cies." Arrivals in El Paso from the capital, however, said that the food scarcity and lack of opportunity for work are important factors. Private dispatches here from Chihuahua Chi-huahua City said that "General" Joseph Jo-seph Salazar, held there in connection with alleged revolutionary plots, had been executed by General Trevino. There "was no official confirmation, however. |