21 JULY 1928, Page 2

General Obregon, the President-elect of Mexico, was assassinated at a

luncheon on Tuesday. The assassin was able to approach him by pretending to .be a car- toonist. General Obregon was shot five times through the chest. He was President before, having been elected in 1920 for four years, and he _and President Calles had an arrangement by which they hoped to succeed one another indefinitely. Their policies were much the same— Nationalist,- Progressive in domestic politics, and anti- clerical. * *