AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1926, Page 2

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

MEXICO’S CHURCHES. MEXICO CITY. Aug. 1

While the Roman Catholic world prayed for • Mexico on .Sunday, in response to instructions from Pope Pius XI, and while Mexican Catholics knelt in their now priestless churches, members of Hid regional Confederation of Labour, with the" Government employees, paraded the streets of important centres in the country as a demonstration in support of the Government’s new religious regulation.^. So far, it is learned, the people of Mexico have Icept themselves-- in control, hut the reports now coming in show that there are indications of disturbance/- and clashes in various parts of the Republic. On Saturday afternoon and night, when tho churches were turned over to citizens’ committees, tho Priests withdrew. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2. An investigation into the plot against tho life of Calles is being pressed, hut how the plotters intended to kill him is not disclosed. In the meantime, Dolores Lemus, n young stenographer at the City Hall, and others are being held under arrest. VANCOUVER, Aug. 2. A message from Nogales, Arizona, states that dispatches from Mexico City report there have been several clashes there. 1 ' About fifteen persons have been wounded. Some of them are women. VANCOUVER, Aug. 2. A semi-official report from, the Mexican capital says: “A police strike is now threatened, liecause of the religious situation.” “It is asserted that the Church sympathisers are 1 well armed, and that they atre ready to meet any situation, . |atid that the police, will possibly strike if they are called upon to act against the Catholics. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 1. Their willingness to enter into a truce with, the Government until, by means of a national plebiscite, the Mexican people can express themselves concerning the religious controversy, has been expressed in a statement issued by the Mexican Episcopate.

BAHAMA HURRICANE

NASSAU, August 1

It is unofficially stated that the known deaths in the hurricane are 126, and that there are four hundred' niiss-

One hundred boats were sunk

The property damage is estimated at eight millions of dollars. Vessels of the sponge fleet to the number of eighty, which had gone to tlie banks when the hurricane struck, are believed to ho with 350 of their crews.

A ’QUAKE. MANILA. August 2. An earthquake this afternoon shook Manila. No damage was done.' Many were alarmed and left the buildings. The origin -of the ‘quake was near Manila. There were nine after-shocks.

NEW YORK’S WATER. (Received this day at 9.0 a m.) NEW YORK, August 2. New York is facing a serious water famine with the city’s supply of seventy nine million gallons under normal and a daily consumption totalling 969 million gallons. The big Asliokau reserve designed to contain 127,700 million gallons and the principal source ot supply is now two-thirds empty. Gilboa dam, the city’s second- largest storage project is nearing completion and it is hoped it may be ready to relieve the situation before the present supply which is estimated is of only two months’ duration is' exhausted. T?ie situation is due to storms occurring during the summer along the watershed and the usual spring freshets this year being disappointing. Officials view the conditions with alarm. All water meter inspectors have been withdrawn from their usual tasks and assigned the task of patrolling boroughs in an effort to stop waste, one of the principal sources of which, is the daily opening of street hydrants to give children showers.