The Archive · 1926

Anglican Church Protest

The British Minister, Mr. Ovey, has made representation to. the Mexican Foreign Office on behalf of the Anglican Cathedral, which British privately owne but un the jurisdiction of the American Epiecopal Church.

Mr. Ovey hus been instructed protest against its possible seizure under the new religious law now being: enforced, which specifies that all chavehes "are the property of the nation.

it understood that a leading part intervention of the Britist Foreign Ofice.

The Mexican Foreign Office hav replied that the case will be care fully eons red, Dean Peacock, a British ex-army chaplain, has been arrested on charge of vick laws. His cas Demonstration in Favour of Government Later.

A policeman was killed last ni by 'a stone thrown. by a woman among a crowd around a church. Another policeman wounded the we. man, who subsequently died.

The crowd later collided with troops, who fired a volley wounding, nine people.

The crowds thronging the church Rechuea for the closing services July 81 were so dense that six women and six children were suffocated, Fifty thousand people marched in procession through Mexico City today in: support of the Government's policy.

The usual Sunday bull fight took! place to-day and the stands were as] crowded as usual.

Everything is fairly quiet but] there is a general undercurrent of, excitement.

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