REVOLT ENDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 7

REVOLT ENDED.

REBELS SURRENDER. Cruiser Bombardment Breaks Resistance. BRITISH MARINES ASHORE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) LISBON, May 3. Dispatches from Madeira state that the revolt has ended. The Minister of the Interior announces that Funchal was handed over to the Government again yesterday.

The rebel leaders took refuge a I the British Consulate. A bombardment, carried out by the cruiser Vasco da Gama, broke the rebel moral, but caused few casualties. Marines and bluejackets have landed to protect British lives and property. '

An earlier message from Funchal stated that the rebel leaders claimed to have repulsed bombardments and attacks in four places.

The Portuguese transports, it was stated, could not approach the island owing to artillery fire from the shore. Some of the Government's forces were wounded and a destroyer had to be towed back to her base.

Detachments landed earlier struggled inland. They were impeded by hilly country. The rebels' short-range guns could not reply to the marine bombardment. The Government recovered two steamers from the rebels.

The Vasco da Gama fired two shots, one of which destroyed the registrar's house a mile from the hotel where British residents were accommodated. It narrowly missed an adjacent building containing 15 children..

Aeroplanes flew over the city, indicating that the bishop's peace efforts had failed.

The total results of the battle of Madeira are now revealed. The rebels had three killed and 12 wounded, and the attacking force none killed and two wounded. Little material damage appears to have x'esulted.