MEXICAN CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1926, Page 3

MEXICAN CRISIS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. 'J MEXICO’S CHURCHES. NEW YORK, August 5. Government agents estimated Mexico would have sold for a million dollars, the Philadelphia “ Despatch.” says, reminding the United States Government. “That Cedes had insulted, degraded and expelled American citizens, men and women under circumstances abhorrent to our conception of constitutional Government.” Knights of Columbus Convention adopted a resolution protesting against the Mexican President’s religious policy. They said: “We warn fellow American citizens that they cannot endure at their very doorstep the Russianizing of Mexico with impunity. PR lEST EX-CO A IM C MCA TED. MEXICO CITY, August 5. Guinsear Valeniea, Bishop of Vera Cruz, lias issued a manifesto stating Father Anguinio, the priest who accepted the Government regulations, has been ex-communicated. NO COMPROMISE. WASHINGTON, August 5. A message from Mexico City says: — President Cades has reiterated it as being the intention of lus Government “to enforce, without fear of interdicts or supernatural punishment,” the constitution’s new religious provisions. He makes this declaration in the course of a reply to a telegram, from President Leguia of Peru, requesting the establishment of harmony between the Mexican Government and the Catholic clnirdii.

WASHINGTON, August 5. . Tlio pessimism regarding a. conflict in .Mexico is increased to-day liy belated reports arriving of serious disturbances in the outlying districts. Six persons are reported to be dead and 1-1 wounded at Guanalajara, where the State troops routed a mob of people at a church. There were one officer and two privates among the six killed. At Torreon one person was killed and-six wounded in a disturbance on Sunday evening. A woman believed to bo a Protesant was beheaded in Irapta by a crowd, who wore excited by tike suspension of the Catholic services. U.S.A. CATHOLICS. NEW-WORK, August .5. A Philadelphia statement says: The Knights of Columbus have authorised their Board of Directors to “ assess our membership to the extent of one million dollars for a campaign of education to the end that the politics of Soviet Russia shall be eliminated from the philosophy of American life, and that the ideals of liberty of conscience and democratic freedom may extend to our affiliated fellow beings beyond the Rio Grande. AUSTRALIAN PRELATES VIEWS. HONOLULU, August G. Archbishop Mannix, commenting on the Mexican situation, said that it was the most outrageous persecution of individual liberty in recent yeais. jf the Government of Mexico bad any grievance against the Church, then the Government should have used other means against it. NEW YORK, August 5. Archbishop Duhig said tlio Mexican question involves an issue which we have been fighting ever since the beginning—oven since the Roman em-perors-—namely that the C'atbo io Churclr cannot be made the child of the State.