New Britain herald., 1926-08-18
Gales Administration Is Keeping on Alert - Catholics Deny Any Armed Revolt Plans - Unconfirmed Reports of More Rioting - Women Said to Be taking Active Part.

Mexico City. Aug. IS R-The Mexican government still is hard at work in trying to run down and take into custody all such persons as it believes were connected with the alleged plan for a revolt last Sunday. also it is keeping careful eye upon the American border for possible revolutionary incursions into the northern states of the republic Meantime the religious controversy continues deadlocked.
 Attitude Being Watched
 There is considerable speculation as to whether Mexico will request the United States to extradite for mer provisional president, Adolfo de la Huerta, who is believed to be in California; General Enrique Es- trada. who is under arrest at San Diego, and other revolutionists across the border. Thus far, how ever, the government has not made known its policy.
 It is reported that General Lopez de Lara, former governor of Tamau- lipas and follower of de la Huerta, and who recently had been living in San Antonio Texas, crossed the from tier into Tamaulipas and was cap tured and executed by federal troops. The war department asserts that 1t has no information to this effect.
 Revolutionary Reports
 There has been numerous rumors in the capital that revolutionists have come into Mexico, or intend to do so, from Texas, New Mexico and Arizona The war department says it has failed to verify these rumors. Nevertheless Secretary of War Amaro, who was on military in- spection trip in Durango, has gone hurriedly to Chihuahua City for the purpose of personally directing troop distributions and military preparations against possible revo- lutionary attempts at the frontier.
 The foreign office says 1t has re- ceived information that religious elements" in California contributed toward General Estrada's projected revolution. It asserts that special agents reported to the government some time ago that funds were be- ing collected in California to aid Estrada, who with all of his outfit and his war stores, was captured by Americans near San Diego and land ed in jail.
 Women Reported Leaders
 According to assertions made by the secret police Catholic women, whose tightening of their purse strings is proving a big factor in the economic boycott called by the league for defense of religious liber- ty in protest against the govern ment's religious regulations. are not only foremost in prayers for peace but first in alleged plans to fight.
 Jose Maseorro, chief of the secret police, asserts that Catholic women were leaders in the alleged plot for uprisings in various parts of the re- public last Sunday, which the police nipped in the bud. Furthermore he says the plot was definitely connect ed with General Estrada's plan, the two together being intended to throw Mexico into revolution.
 According to Mascorro, Sonora Josefna Novoa Id Sonora Luz F.. Deperchez, prominent Catholics of San Angel, a suburb of Mexico City were the guiding spirits in the plot Chief Mascorro said his secret police. posing as Catholics favoring the revolution for some time had been attending meetings of plotters in their residences. The executive board of the revolutionary move ment, he declared, consisted of sev- en men and seven women. Similar ly ever y district in which a revolt had been planned had women on the board of directors.
 About 60 Arrested
 Sonora Nova and Sonora Deper- chez are still being held under ar N''hf Nc5CNiAti hItll dDOuL tU OlnbT persons. Altogether more than GO persons have been arrested in or near Mexico City, including General Carlos Ariza. Some of them have been released.
 Secret service agents say they saw arms and ammunition In the resi- dences of Sonora Nova and Sonora Deperchez when they attended meetings there, but when they re- turned to make arrests these had disappeared. One of the agents as- serts that he once heard Sonora Deperchez say that women were di- recting the plot because men are good for nothing" He added that the uprising had been originally planned for tomorrow, but that the date had been changed to last Sun day so as 10 synchronize with Gen eral Estrada's proposed movement from California.
 While the Catholic episcopate has made no formal statement, 1t has been ascertained from reliable circles that the church authorities have not authorized armed resist ance by Catholics and that the epis- copate thinks the government off cials are giving undue importance 10 the alleged plot.
 Mediation Attempts
 The foreign office admits that Latin American diplomats have made efforts to mediate in the reli- gious controversy. It was said this was done at the instance of the episcopate, but that the Mexican government was unable to permit any foreign good office in a purely domestic affair. It was said also at the foreign office that 1t had inform