A MEXICAN HOAX. SENSATIONAL DESCRIPTION OF SUPPOSED INSURRECTION. Mexico, December 31.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 331, 5 January 1889, Page 3

A MEXICAN HOAX. SENSATIONAL DESCRIPTION OF SUPPOSED INSURRECTION. Mexico, December 31.

Instigated by the priests, though for what cause is at present unknown, the populace of this city rose against the Government, and on Thursday an immense mob, a'ded by the garrison of the three barracks, attacked the palace of the President, General Porfirio Diaz. A bloody conflict ensued, in which the Government forces were eventually victorious, though three generals were killed. Two thousand of the insurgents were captured, and 72 of the priests, who were encouraging the assailants, were killed. Two hundred more priests have since been arrested, and ordered to be shot. Among those ordered for execution is an Archbishop.

London, December 33. It is now stated that the account of the riot and massacre at Mexico, previously cabled, is a hoax. It originated through a paper in the city of Mexico publishing a detailed account of a revolution which might be the possible result ii the anti-clerical policy of the Government were persisted in. Correspondents of the European journals accepted the story as a fact, and wired it, without taking the ptecaution of ascertaining whether it was authentic.