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Show PLEADS PRIESTS' CAUSE. Secretary Bryan Intervenes in Behalf of Catholics Held Prisoners. Washington. Further representations representa-tions 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 ibehalf of the 180 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 be held in captivity. captiv-ity. It was not known here how many of the 180 priests were Spaniards. Secretary Bryan said he had been informed that one American and one British priest in Mexico had not been molested. |