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...killing pace on the next leg to Puebla and Mexico City nearly killed France's Behra as his Gordini smashed up on a tight curve and plummeted into a deep ditch. Behra was dragged out of the wreck with compound fractures of nine ribs and severe facial injuries. Bracco's Ferrari took over a slender three-minute lead, but breathing down his neck were the three Mercédès-Benzes, now bunched, paced by Kling. German Coach Neubauer, sending platoons of mechanics up to the next stopover, was exultant: "We are out of the mountains...
Last week, when bus fares in Puebla were raised from 10 to 15 centavos, crowds rioted, overturned buses, set them afire; federal troops were sent to restore order. Extremists on both sides, Sinar-quistas of the right and Communists of the left, will try to take, advantage of public exasperation...
Fair Game. In the tiny village of Esperanza, on the border between the states of Vera Cruz and Puebla, a small group of Evangelistas were holding their regular Sunday afternoon service in a private house. In the plaza, clusters of men were tanking up at the village pulquerias. Soon they were looking for a fight, and the Evangelistas were fair game. One Protestant was killed, four others wounded...
When he found the army of General Zaragoza drawn up at Puebla, Lorencez did not even bother to maneuver for position. The Mexican priests assured him that the city hated the Juarez government more than any city in the land, and would greet his troops with flowers. Lorencez popped away briefly with his ten cannon, then ordered his men to take the fortified convent of Guadalupe...
Maximilian's Masters. Twelve months later Napoleon III, having fired his general and studied maps of Puebla himself, sent 30,000 men to take the place (now renamed Puebla de Zaragoza), drive Juárez to the Rio Grande border, and install Maximilian as Mexico's emperor. But Mexicans had learned the meaning of the Cinco de Mayo. "You have fought the first soldiers of the day," said a patriot to the ragged victors of Puebla, "and you have been the first to conquer them...