ARMED CLASHES IN COLUMBIA
PROPERTY BURNED BY RIOTERS • BOGOTA (Colombia), April 17. Soldiers clashed with about -W armed civilians in a battle at the milage of Chita, a few miles north-east of Bogota, to-day. It is believed that there were some deaths. Houses and plantations were burned to the ground by raiders before the soldiers intervened, but the total damage is not yet known. The incident at Chita was only one of a number of clashes throughout Colombia to-day, when a inne-cla> political truce proclaimed by the President (Dr. Mariano Ospina, Perez) ended The truce had been proclaimed in an effort to prevent demonstrations on or near the first anniversary of the assassination of the Left-wing Liberal leader (Dr. Jorge Gaitan). Dr. Gaitan s murder precipitated a wave of rioting throughout the country during the Pan-Aimerican Conference last year.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 160, 19 April 1949, Page 3
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