NEW PRESIDENT

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1930, Page 6

NEW PRESIDENT

SHOT IN MEXICO.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.

Advice from Mexico City states that the attempt was made as the President was leaving the National Palace. In his inauguration address the President pledged the Government .to five years hard work for the common people. Ho termed the workers and peasants the hope of Mexico. He doclared that any restoration of conservative or effon of moderate men and systems was impossible. This, he said, was because the country was heart and soul intent on a radical work of restoring to the race its heritage. He said that the Government would he “entirely revolutionary.’

MEXICO CITY, Fob. 6,

When' the shot was fired at Rubio, a close censorship was immediately established.

YOUTH FIRES SIX SHOTS.

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5

The Mexican authorities believe that the attempt on the life of Rubio is a part of a widespread plot. On orders given from the Department of the Interior, seven additional persons have been arrested. Their identity iis not revealed. Rubio was not seriously injured and the slug has been removed from his left jaw. The President’s wife, and niece, a military aide and a bystander were grazed by other bullets, when a youth, who presumably is partisan of Senior Vasconcellos, clothed in black, fired six shots into Rubio’s automobile before tho National Palace. The would be assassin stubbornly refused to talk. He was placed under a heavy guard. Accomplices of the assassin, one of whom was a womon, attempted to escape a cycle policeman, who caught the youth. The youth wore a catholic insignia in order to escape detection.

An indescribable impression of regret is visible everywhere among citizens, who earlier in the day were in the best of humour at tho peaceful orderly manner in which Rubio assumed office.

Representatives of all the political factions expressed disgust at the coldblooded attempt at murder.

, Seven persons have been arrested on suspicion of a conspiracy to assassinate.

REVOLUTION POLICY

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 6

It is now authoritatively reported that the assassin has admitted to the War Secretary, Amare, that ho. is Miguel Flores, aged twenty-two years, a student, and a follower of Senor Vasconcellos, the defeated anti-Re-el-ectionist Presidential candidate. The assassin stated that Vaseoncellistas hatched a plot to kill Rubio and his entire Cabinet, and ex-President Portes Gil, to produce Government chaos, and seize control. The police arq now watching closely for further trouble, the exact seriousness of which they are unable to ascertain as yet.