BOLIVIAN UPRISING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1941, Page 7

BOLIVIAN UPRISING

Nazi Movement Scotched At Commencement PROMPT OFFICIAL ACTION LONDON, July 21. • f 2 rmer Finance Minister of Bolivia, Senor Victor Paz Estenssoro at T 3£ ija ' in the heart Sio Bolivian oilfields, because of his connection with the abortive Nazi putsch which threw the counnight* 3 St3te ° f Siege on Saturda y . police also arrested four civilian members of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, which was started by Major Elias Belmonte, now the Bolivian military attache in o u u and a German named bchroth a former manager of the firm of Lloyd Aereo Boliviano. Four newspapers, two of which • Ve « e r in v c . luded in the blacklist issued in Washington, have been suspended. I . The proclamation of a state of siege automatically dissolved the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, which the Bolivian Government describes as a small party formed with the connivance of German residents in La Paz. The President, Senor Enrique Penaranda, who has taken personal control of the country's affairs is cleaning up the situation. He advocates full co-operation with the United States for the defence of the western hemisphere.