MADEIRA REVOLT.
TROOPS TAKE CHARGE.
High Officials Arrested by
, Rebels.
MILITARY JUNTA SET UP.
(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
LONDON, April 6.
A message from Funchal, the chief town of Madeira, states that allegedly on the instigation of deportees from Lisbon the local troops ancl troops sent from Lisbon to deal with a recent general strike revolted.
The rebels arrested the High Commissioner and the civil and military Governors, took over the telegraphs, telephones, the Bank of Portugal and the local Finance Department and nominated General Sousa Dias as Governor and head of a military junta.
A manifesto issued by the junta says the movement is aimed at abolishing the revolutionary regime.
The Portuguese Government to-day will dispatch a cruiser and a machinegun battalion to Funchal.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 7
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