IN MURDEROUS MEXICO.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1925, Page 4

IN MURDEROUS MEXICO.

I,(».'!)0X. .lan. 13. Mrs CaimTou jsivis a <:rissly aicaiint

of modern Mexieo in a most interesting; honk. ‘'Mexico in Revolution.” She Inis written with exceeding haste and she has a habit of repenting herself, lml her pages are eramined with incident and information, and her lllustraiioils are exceedingly good. Mexico, as she shows, is relapsing into niter anarchy. 1/dc in its capitill is desperately dangerous; people are kidnapped, mutilated or murdered with almost complete impunity. perhaps I lie most terrible story which she has to tell is that c.f the end of the hapless ex-Presideut Huerta a few years ago. lie was cnj>tnred by his oppnnens and imprisoned ; and he became very ill, _ One night there arrived at his prison a big si ranger who spoke perfect Spanish and professed to lie a doctor and admirer of Huerta. Ihe stranger medically examined Huerta and told him that— Unless an immediate operation was performed, in 3ti hours Huerta would lie dead. Huerta and his wile talked it over and they b )th consented to the operation. The bearded stranger then made two long abdomennl incisions—without anaesthetics —and did not sew up the wounds. This accomplished, he pitilessly went out into the night of mystery from whence he came. Spaniards say that the land is accursed for all the innocent blood which was shed by the Aztecs in their hideous religious dites, and .Mrs Cameron’s account of Mexican cruelty, rapacity, and savagery suggests that there may I lie something in this beliei.