CATHOLICS IN MEXICO.
CONFLICT WITH FEDERAL TROOPS. (bt cable—press association— copyright.) (Sydney "Sun" Service.) MEXICO CITY, January 17. Federal troops captured the town of Tepatilan after a bloody fight and the death of nearly 100 in the Jalisco district, the centre of what the Government calls the Catholic rebellion. Seventy of the dead were rebels. The rebels laid siege to Tepatilan, but relieving Government forces arrived and drove them off with many wounded. The Government is arming the peasants in the States where the rebels are ftctlVG The' Catholic Episcopato denies that it is responsible for the outbreaks. Senor de Maso Bazzara.a prominent Catholic leader, who was heading the revolt in the Mesquital district, under the banner "For God and Country," was killed in battle.
ANOTHER BATTLE. (AUSTRALIAN AND H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January 18th, 8.5 p.m.) MEXICO CITY, January 17. A hundred rebels were killed In a battle with Federal troops near Tepatilan, in Jalisco State, in addition to 200 reported killed on Sunday.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18903, 19 January 1927, Page 11
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