Ominous developments clouding the Mexican horizon last week:
Deportations Begun. Without issuing previous warnings, the Attorney General of Mexico ordered the arrest and deportation of all priests who are not native Mexicans. A few hours later Mexican soldiers marched into numerous churches, seized the officiating clergy, marched them off to jail without so much as allowing them to change their vestments or obtain personal belongings from their homes.
Twenty-four hours after the order was issued, 14 Spanish priests were en route to Spain forcibly deported from Vera Cruz aboard the steamship Espagne. Despatches...
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