Priests Must Register

President Emilio Fortes Gil revealed, last week, that prior to the dynamiting of his private train (TIME, Feb. 18), he received an anonymous warning:

Slave, commend thy soul to God! Thou shalt not reach Mexico City!

The instinctive reaction of the chief executive to what he considers Catholic attempts upon his life came, last week, when Senor Fortes Gil authorized an order that every priest in Mexico must register his address with the authorities before Feb. 27, 1929, "In view of the subversive conduct of the high Catholic clergy in Mexico." The Protestant clergy continued quite unmolested by the Government.

Four days after the Presidential order was issued the entire military escort of a passenger train proceeding through the State of Michoacan were killed when the armored escort car was dynamited.

Persons who may be planning further dynamitings were warned by Presidential proclamation thus: "The Government believes that economic pressure will be of use to it, and will seize the holdings of those found to be the authors or accomplices of such crimes."

Two hundred and fifty priests registered at the Ministry of the Interior before the expiration of the first day.