The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-05-13
Kew. burgess Ie4S
OF Revolt In
Guatemala

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his mother. Mrs. Anna H. Burgess, at
1923 North Eighth street, dated at
Quezaltenango, Guatemala, April II,
gives some interesting facts in rela-
tion to the recent political revolution
in that country. from which we have
been permitted to make the following
excerpts. He says:
.'As soon as Easter was over the
next thing on the program was a rev.
olution. This had been threatened
for some time. but did not actually
break out until Ex-President Cabrera,
who had run the government for 22
years, refused to be unseated by the
national assembly, which had de-
clared him insane. The country was
forces were under the command of
the president, so that a resort to arms
was unavoidable.
Here in Quezaltenago we were
right in the midst of the battle. and
our house is pretty well marked with
bulletes. Nothing happened to us,
personally, however, and though prac-
tically every male member of our
church was in the firing line, either on
one side or the other, none of them
were killed. though several were
wounded. Our house served as a ref
uge for several people. and our medi-
tation was necessary at times to save
some Of our people from the firing
squad. Things seem to be tranquil
now
Missionary that ! am, was called
out to serve on the international pos
lice force, which was formed to avert
looting in the days following the bat
tie. The nearest / came to doing SOL
diers' duty was on Thursday last. One
of our deacons had been in an auto
which had been fred upon by the en-
emy, but had made his escape with
some others. The last word we had
of him was that he had fallen wound
ed. But when the enemy surrendered
he was neither among the wounded
nor the dead. So commission of the
church set out to find him. We got
as far as Salcaja, but there our chauf-
feur refused : to go farther. Fortu-
nately, Mr.. Hines, a missionary at Tot
onicapan. came along on his motor
cycle, just at this moment and took
me on behind and together we went
to the front" When we reached San
Francisco ell Altot we found two autos
with about 20 armed men who had
been sent to receive the arms and
bring back the autos. and were wait.
ing for some definite word as to the
attitude of the people of the town OF
Momostejango. They gave us letters
and asked us to find out for them. So
we two missionaries on motorcycle
with no weapon whatever. ventured
into a town that 30 armed men in pow.
erful motor cars were afraid to tackle
found our deacon who had escaped
with his life by playing dead, and dis
covered that the town was really
ready to give up its arms. So we hur
ried back over the hill to San Fran.
cisco with the news
I'VE do not know just how the
change in government will effect oul
mission work. There is no doubt that
Catholic and German influence have
co-operated in the fall of Cabrera. but
the liberals have co-operated too. His
tyranny was really too much. He
had lately taken to horsewhipping his
ministers when anything went wrong
and this was what actually led to his
fall. So far we are all right. The
changes OF government has swept sew
eral of our members into important
positions of responsibility, and here
in this, district the present govern
ment is more friendly to our work
than was the former one for it is com
posed very largely of our personal
friends"