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Show PRIESTS TO LEAD MEXICANUPRISING HOLY WAR THREATENED BECAUSE BE-CAUSE OF HOSTILITY OF CONSTITUTIONALISTS CONSTI-TUTIONALISTS TO CHURCH. Desecration of Church and Confiscation Confisca-tion of Property Cause of Uprising, Upris-ing, Citizens Led by Priest Attacking Soldiers. El Paso, Texas. A "holy war" in Mexico as a counter revolution against the Carranza-Villa embroglio has been threatened, according to reports brought here Monday by Americans and Mexicans who arrived by various routes from Guadalajara. They told of uprisings against the constitutionalist authorities of central Mexico led by Mexican priests. It was indicated by local activities that the "cientifico," or ex-federal element, ele-ment, which flourished under the Diaz and Huerta regimes, would combine with the new movement in ousting the constitutionalists who disagreed even before the triumph of their revolution. The new movement was started at Union de Tula, Jalisco state, when the constitutionalists from the roof of the cathedral waved at the populace a bishop's mitre and afterward confiscated confis-cated the churoh property. This act so enraged the people that, led by a priest and te town mayor, they engaged en-gaged the soldiers in a running fight. Soon the trouble spread to adjoining towns located around Guadalajara, second sec-ond largest city in Mexico and industrial indus-trial center of the west coast coun try. The residents of this district proclaimed pro-claimed themselves in favor of the Villa revolution for the reason that their grievances were directed against the troops of General Obregon, a Carranza Car-ranza partisan. |