REVOLUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 6

REVOLUTION.

PANAMA FIGHTING

ARIAS NOW IN POWER.

Revolutionaries Overthrow Government.

TEN PERSONS KILLED.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright

(Received 10 ,a.m.) PANAMA CITY, January 2. A sudden revolt, on Friday overthrew the Government of President Florencio Harmodio Arosertaena, and the capital of the Republic, Panama, passed into the hands of the revolutionary junta, headed by Harmadio Arias. Ten persons were killed and a score wounded in the fighting about the Palace and police station. President Arosemena submitted his resignation on Friday afternooti, naming Senor Arias, of the Bar Association, to form a Cabinet. Following upon this, the Supreme Court appointed Senor Arias as head of the provisional Government. Ife "was also appointed "Secretary of the Government and Justice." This manifesto was signed by representative citizens, and was issued as a pledge by the revolutionaries that they would respect all international obligations.

ATTACK BEFORE DAWN

Youthful Revolutionists Take Palace.

FEDERAL POLICE LOYAL.

(Received 1 p.m.) PANAMA CITY, January 2. . • youthful . revolutionists rose against tie Government at 3 o'clock in the moming, captured the President and, proclaimed a provisional regime- Hannodio Arosemena was soon in rebel hands, and as the Presidential palace fell hostilities centred around the central police station as well as the palace. Loyal Federal ?police met the insurrectionists -with machine-gun fire hut were •unable to prevail against them.

JOURNALIST SHOT.

TJITCTED STATES CITIZEN.

. -, ' (Keceivc-a 12. noon.)" • . PANAMACITY,January 2.. . •Mr. Hajtwell;Ayers, a United States ■newspaper man,, was 'slot in "the abdomen? by at stray bullet during , the fighting Vhich -followed the . outbreak of the rebellion, He is not .expected $9.*livg* ' Panama, , which', until. 1903, was. part of the republic of- Columbia, has a pojpfllar. tioa of about .450,000" (excluding the Canal Zone), and an area of 33,000 square miles. About one-ninth of 'these are whites'and one-fifth negroes, ; while'over half of , the inhabitants axe Mestizos—a - mixture of • Spanish, Negro and Indian elements. Panama City, at the Pacific end of . the Canal, has nearly 60,000 perrons,. being the Ihird- city of the country in size. South and Central American revolutions which were successful'are:-r July, 1930, Bolivia.—President Siles by military junta. August,' Cerro ousted President Leguia, September, Argentina.—General Uribnru •' displaced President Irigoyen. . November, Brazil.—General [Vargas defeated Dr. Washington Ifuiz. December, Guatemala.—General 'Qrellana beat two Presidents, Chacon and Palma. January, 1931, Panama.—General Arias beat President Arosemena,