Twenty-One Dead in Clash at Cocula, Jalisco, Over a Religious Demonstration

Twenty-one people were killed and ten wounded in a clash between Catholics and municipal authorities at Cocula, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, according to special dispatches from Guadalajara reported by the Associated Press on Tuesday. The mayor and the local deputy were among the dead.

The dispatches lacked detail. They said the municipal authorities had opposed a religious demonstration, whereupon Catholics attacked municipal officials, employees and policemen. The Evening Star’s headline added that priests arrested at Zaragoza and Monclova were imprisoned and that a bishop was ordered deported.

The New Britain Herald reported that Agrarian organizations announced they would support President Calles and that their Mexico City headquarters told all branches to cooperate with federal troops in pursuing rebels.