RIOTERS' DEMANDS GRANTED
i— Prws Assn--
Chur^hes Reopened in Mexico SEVERAL PERSONS HURT
(By Teleerraph
—Copyrieht.)
(Beceived J.J, a.JLo p.m.; ^ MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12. Disorder and the use of troops are reported from Orizaba. Thousands oi Catholics poured into the town demanding the reopening of the churches. Several persons were hurt. A piliar of one church . fell when crowds broke open the doors. Later a group% entered another church, which had been converted into a fire department, and rolled away the engines. Troops finally ousted the invaders, who carried banners inscribed: "We die, but God never dies." ' Twenty thousand persons held menacing manifestations around the Town Hall, leading the authorities to announce that some churches wOuld be permitted to reopen. Fourteen thousand persons broke into churches at CordoUa and rang the bells exultantly.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 25, 13 February 1937, Page 5
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133RIOTERS' DEMANDS GRANTED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 25, 13 February 1937, Page 5
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