MEXICAN CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1926, Page 3

MEXICAN CRISIS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 19. In reply to the Mexican Episcopate’.* request to suspend the recently enforced religious regulations. President Chiles says that he is unable to amend the constitution, and that, because of his political convictions lie cannot submit to Congress a Bill modifying the religious laws. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 20. Two Mexican Deputies were mortally wounded, Colonel Andres Garcia was killed and Thomas Garrido (ex-Gover-nor of the State of Tobasco) was shot in tho face in a street battle in the business section, of the city to-day. It was tho outcome of bitter rivalry between the political factions in Congress.^ It is estimated that about twenty participated. The people in the streets became panic sricken. A wonpn was wounded. VANCOUVER, Aug. 19. A message from El Paso, Texas, states that Mexican troops have been ordered to the border opposite to Columbus, in Now Mexico, following on the discovery of a planned movement of a band of heavily-armed men- into Mexico, in a revolutionary movement, according to the Juarez military ollieials.