COMIC OPERA BATTLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1920, Page 1

COMIC OPERA BATTLE.

WOMEN RUSHING ABOUT WITH JEWELS. ROARING PET LION. NEW YORK, May 18. A United Press message describes as a comic opera affair the last scenes of the battle in which Carranza, tbe deposed Mexican President, tried to hold out when nearly surrounded, only to flee to the mountains. It says : “ General Juan Barrftgan, Carranza’s youthful chief of staff and the most beautiful man in Mexico, minus bis gaudy uniform, was trying frantically to crank a small motor-car. Son or Ignacio Bonillas, the former Ambassador to the United States, the man whose candidature did more than anything to bring about the crisis resulting in Carranza’s downfall, bad lost his horse and is described in rebel despatches as rushing madly among tbe soldiers crying, “ A thousand pesos (£100) for a horse!” The pet lion favourite of General Marginal added to the din by loud roars. Riderless horses raced over the battlefield pursued by Bonillas, who was unable to catch a mount. “ All tbe while General Marguia (whose death has been twice reported) was bellowing to rally bis men who wore fleeing from the trenches. This be succeeded in doing temporarily to stop the rebel advance. Finally Carranza was pusuadod that there was still a chance of fighting a wn'y out and escaping to the mountains. This plan proved successful. As Carranza and bis cavalrymen rushed away from the battlefield a medley of aflirightod women who had accompanied Carranza in his fight from Mexico City rushed about in rich gowns, carrying jewels in caskets. They were captured and sent back to rebel headquarters.” Tile rebel leaders give unstinted praise to blip bravery of Carranza and his chief military supporter, General Marguia. When a messenger from General Treveno, the revolutionary commander, reached them witli an offer of safe conduct for Carranza, Marguia tore the message i nslireds an dslapped the messenger ill the face. In the fighting which ensued Carranza’s horsy* was shot under him. He calmly mounted another and continued the battle.

U.S. BISHOPS ATTACKED. TOO FOND OF BEING CALLED “ MY LORD.” NEW YORK, May 18. The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, whom Dr Burch, Bishop of New York, recently censured for permitting his pulpit to lie used by laymen for the propagation of extreme political doctrines, retorted last night by preaching a sermon assailing bishops for hampering the growth of the Episcopal Church. Declaring that “ the listlessness and self-satisfaction of the Episcopal Church were driving some of the more humanitarian clergy out of the ministry,” Mr Grant accused bishops of “ opposition to democratic modes of procedure and so to democratic ideas.” He went on : “The relations of bishops of the American Church to bishops of the English Church have elements of danger. In the Lambeth conference all the* English-speaking bishops meet to consult upon general affairs in English speaking countries. The moment an American bishop sets foot in an English ship on his way to Lambeth Palace he is called by the steward ‘My Lord.’ In London lie is ‘Mv lord bishop,’ and as a witness to the domestic, social, and political impressiveness of the British Episcopacy he is very likely to return to the, United States with the words ‘ My lord ’ agreeably ringing in his ears. This easily turns him in his own country to an alliance with the powers that be and tempts him to form an ecclesiastical machine by which he himself may come to larger authority.”