BETWEEN ARMED PEASANTS AND AIR FORCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 7

BETWEEN ARMED PEASANTS AND AIR FORCE

General Cedillo Denounces President DISPUTE BETWEEN LEFT AND RIGHT By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.50 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, May 20. A message from San Luis Potosi states' that fighting has broken out between peasants armed by General Saturnino Cedillo, and Government Air Forces. The railway between Tampico and San Luis Potosi has been cut. The Associated Press correspondent states that General Cedillo sent a peasant army into the hills to prepare for guerilla warfare with President Cardenas’s army. General Cedillo declared that he would not start any trouble, but was ready to repel all aggression by force of arms. General Cedillo, who is a 45-year-old Mexican Indian, and a Right Party supporter, has been a political opponenh of President Carnedas for twenty years and a dominant power in San Luis. Their dispute is a case of Left versus Right. It is feared that if fighting continues it may spread throughout the nation and that Mexico may become another Spain. General Cedillo declares that Mexicans are tired of an infamous dictatorship, with Communist trimmings, which are ending all sources and wealth and submering the country in ruin and misery. “I place responsibility for bloodshed on the caprice of a man who seeks to "make Mexico a dependent of the Soviet,” he added. c