THE MEXICAN MASSACRE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1926, Page 2

THE MEXICAN MASSACRE

SHOOTING, THROAT-CUTTING AND KNIFING. [Australia it N.Z. Cable Association.] NEW YORK, January 11. The bandits who robbed the Guadalajara train locked the door ol all the coaches. They cut the throats cf the guards, and then they systematically knifed and shot fifty passengers. Xo foreigners were injured, though all foreigners were robbed, including the Travelling Manager of the Bank of Montreal. The survivors describe the sceno within the coaches as a ghastly one. The imprisoned passengers were crying vainly for mercy. Twenty of them were burned in one van, while the bandits escaped aboard the locomotive, after wrecking the coaches. —.— ~w"V - BANDITS KILLED-BY GUARDS. EIGHT EXECUTED. >*•> MEXICO CITY, January 11. Four thousand picked Federal troops are in pursuit of the twenty bandit* who held up the train. These soldiers are under the direct orders of President Calles, and they will return in disgrace or else bring hack the bandits, / dead or alive. An unknown number of bandits who massacred the passengers and guards on the train near Guadaljara, wero. killed in a fight with Federal troopa^J^ Eight other were immediately executed. All the loot secured by the bandits has been recovered. The bandits are believed to have been entirely dispersed according to an announcement by the War Department made on Tuesday morning.