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Show CHILDREN KILLED IN MEXICO CITY Troops Fire on Starving People to Quell a Bread Riot. Mexico City, July 6. Torror and anxiety, which has gripped this cltj acutely for tho past few days, reached Its climax today, when a troop ol soldiers, seeking to quell a rising food riot, fired low into a dense throng of people waiting for their allowance of cereal, and killed a number ol women and children. At the Red Cross first aid booths 599 women and children wore treated for gunshot wounds and for injuries ther received In the crush of 30,000 people which gathered in front of the International relief commission's warehouse ware-house to receive their share of tho six loads of corn that was distributed. Local authorities find themselves completely incapacitated for ameliorating ameli-orating the grave situation arising from tho dearth of food. The corn distributed today was purchased by foreigners. Police protection within tho city has utterly collapsed, as was illustrated illus-trated yesterday when E. W. P. Thurston, Thurs-ton, British consul general here, was nearly forced, at rifle points, to aid In a jail delivery. Tho consul general was taking his morning automobile ride when he was stopped by two of Zapata's soldiers They climbed into his car, ordering his chauffeur to drive them leisurely about the city for several hours. Finally Fi-nally they ordered themselves taken to the penitentiary, where a general jail delivery -was attempted by them During their hilarious ride the British Brit-ish legation was notified. The two soldiers were arrested and a promise has been made that they will be executed. exe-cuted. The consul general's car flew the British flag at the' time it was commandeered by the two soldiers In fact every automobile that ventures forth on the streets during these troubled trou-bled times carries, like the ships of the sea, the national flag of its owner. But the Zapata soldiers seem to havo the utmost contempt for these flags. Seizing and stealing of automobiles is general. A hotly waged revolver duel which was staged yesterday between two army officers and a dozen of their followers in one of the principal streets Illustrates further the chaotic disorder nnd anarchy which prevails. The participants in the duels were all mounted They met as if by appointment appoint-ment in the thoroughfare, which was thronged with people. One officer and two horses were killed. An effort is being made to extort promises from the different leaders that they will cease fighting indiscriminately indiscrim-inately in the streets. Gaunt -public executions of offenders offend-ers has stolen Into the city to add Its horrors to all else that Is horrible Before a great crowd in the public sauare only a stone's throw from the ni'tional place, three officers were executed. ex-ecuted. They were Colonel Francisco Martinez Mollejo, Colonel Julian Fig-ueroa Fig-ueroa and Captain Frarcisco Aguierre. The three men had been found guilty of participating in the general scheme of blackmail which has become common com-mon The execution is said to be the first happening of its sort since colonial colo-nial days oc |