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Show PLEADS PRIESTS' CAUSE. Secretary Bryan Intervenes in BehaH of Catholics Held Prisoners. Washington. Further represcnta, Hons against the persecution by Car-ranza Car-ranza officials of priests in Mexico were made on Saturday by Secretary Bryan. Consul Canada at Vera Cruz was instructed in behalf of the ISO priests arrested by General Obregon in Mexico City, where they are detained de-tained in the national palace. Some of them are reported to be Spaniards, and these, it is said, have been threatened threat-ened with expulsion from the country. Carranza officials demanded 500,000 pesos of the priests by a certain time, and when it was not forthcoming told the foreigners among them, according to report, that they would be banished, while natives would he held in captivity captiv-ity It was not known here how many of the ISO priests were Spaniards. Secretary Bryan said he had been informed that one American and one British priest in Mexico had not beer, molested. |