Evening star., 1927-02-02
SURRENDER OR DIE
IS ED|CT IN MEXICO
Rebels Given Until February
10 to Accept Amnesty.
ConfiScation Denied.
BY the Associated Press.

MEXICO, CITY, February q
Rebels who surrender Internationally
before February 10 will be granted
amnesty by the government, says an
announcement by under-secretary of
war Pima, but after that date the
| government troops will be relentless
in their pursuit and determination OF
stubborn groups, which will be dealt
with as bandits.
The under secretary stated that
.'the revolution in Mexico is ended, "
/ that a majority of the rebel bands
have been dispersed or exterminated
and that at the present time only
small groups are operating in various
sections of the country.
| Optimistic reports from the state
of Jalisco, sent by the military authori-
ties to the war department, declare
| that with the recent defeat of the
| juchitan rebels, after q six-hour COM
bat in which 81 of them We're killed.
and the surrender Of Espiridion
Ascencio with his followers at Aran-
daa, the Jalisco rebellion has been
crushed.
Ring Leaders Executed. 4.
Jose Robes. Jose Rodriguez and
Segundo Lopez, ring leaders or the
unrisinr at Parras de Las Puertas.
/ CoahuiIa stare. have been captured at
! Las Puertas, where they had been
in hiding, and summarily court
martialed and executed.
| Denial that the Mexican govern
gment intends to confiscate the lands
/ of foreigners and declaration that
i lnn fr1p q N
| form implies the idea of conf1scatlon
are contained in a statement issued
/ by the department of commerce, in
/ dustry and labor.
The statement is based on dis
patch printed by FL Universal OF
| Mexico City embodying an American
newspaper report that Mexico was to
seize the properties of oil companies
refusing TO accept the new Mexican
| laws, and exploit them under the man
/ agement of officials or ex-ofiiciais or
/ the Mexican administration.
Sees No Cause 10 Stop.
! "If these companies reduce or sus-
pend operations" the statement add.
| ed. sit will be for the purpose of
causing unemployment. They de-
| liberateIy wish to create a critical
! situation in the oil zone.
i Eel universal, in an editorial today
asks whether the Mexican government
has the right to bleed the people to
/ nav interest on foreign debt for the
benefit of a few international bankers,
| "who never have done anything IN
| behalf of Mexico and merely hoard
the gold sent to them through heroic
efforts and hardships by the Mexi-
cans" -
The Mexican treasury last week paid
| the last installment on the foreign
| debt service of 1926 The sum was
turned over to the international com
mittee of banking, New York, IN ac'
cordance with the terms of the PAM
Lamont agreement.
Fear Ban ON Masses.
Catholic circles figure that the gov.
ernment may attempt to prevent
| priests from conducting masses In
| private homes, which has been the
general custom since the new religious
laws became effective last August, un
less the priests accept the law. AT
various times since August persons
| assembled at religious services in pri
vate homes have been arrested, but
there has been no serious effort or
the part of the authorities to check
the holding Of these masses.
The present apprehension is caused
nv reports in the Mexican newspapers
that the government intends to con
fine private masses to priests register
ing with the municipal authorities as
the law requires.