The Elbert County tribune., 1915-12-31
CONvENTS ARE RAIDED
NUNS ATTACKED AND PRETTY
GIRLS RAviSHED.
TumuIty Asserts Charges Against
Mexicans Are Untrue, but New
Proofs Are Offered by
Refugees.

Western Newspaper Union News Sergice
New York.-Maternity hospitals of
Mexico are crowded with nuns, vic
tins of attacks by bandits or by SOL
diers serving under the various revo-
lutionary chiefs of Mexico, according
to ecc,esiastics arriving mere. In one
hospital alone, located near Mexico
City, eight-one nuns are about to be-
come mothers, mining man. former
ly in the British consular service, de-
clares. Affidavits in support of his
story have been obtained from United
States army officers.
Despite the denials of the ravages
by Secretary Tumulty, stories of ref
ugees arriving on each succeeding
steamer confirm the claim of the dig
nitaries of the Catholic church that
converts have been invaded and
their inmates ruthlessly violated.
Terror has reigned in the converts
since the fall of Diaz.
In the unsettled days preceding the
recognition of Madero officers who
aided the Madero plot took advantage
of their local dictatorship to force
their attentions on the nuns. Many OF
members of old Castilian families, re-
fined and often beautiful.
But the era OF rapine on a general
scale began with the fall of Madero.
1t has become part of the law CT
Mexican warfare that when town
was captured the loot and the fairest
of the women were the property of
the leaders. The troopers fought
among themselves for the others
One of the most ruthless scenes OF
modern warfare marked the day when
Villa first drove the Huerta troops
from Torreon.S AS Villas shells be
gan to find the range of the Huerta
prepared for flight. They stripped
the churches of such treasure as was
movable, and then demanded admis
sion to the various converts on the
pretext of searching for concealed
gold and Jewels. A few of the con
vents admitted the troopers. The at
tack on the nuns began. Some were
killed resisting their ravagers, othe;s :
took their own lives; more than a
and poems.
But before the next day dawned
every convent in Torreon had beer
invaded, and those of their inmates
who were not ravished were either
killed or committed suicide.
f,ls:
huahua, Guadalupe. on the outskirt.
of Tampeco, and in some of the iso
lated mission towns along the Panuce
river. Reports from the interior in
dicate the converts there Jared nj
better. In Mexico City, which Otter
changed masters twice in day, nj
nun escaped.
While Carranza held the city ther,
was some semblance of protection of
fered, but attacks were frequent ant
nuns dared not appear on the streets
Villa entered the city to meet Ia
pata. The northern bandit chief wor,
chains of gold and jewels taken from
Guadalupe, regarded by Catholics al
the most sacred shrine in Mexico.
Congress Already Has 6,7St Bills.
Washington.ABill clerks of tn,
House are still working on the rec
ords of the proceedings of the ses
sions up to the holiday recess, report
ed that the number of bills alread,
introduced in the Sixty-fourth Con
gress more than double the numbe
of measures at the opening of tn,
Sixty-fourth Congress. During tn,
first twelve days of the last Congress
1920 bills were introduced. In tn,
similar period during the present ses
sion there were G,7s1 bills introduced
besides 1853 resolutions