CURACAO INVADED BY VENEZUELANS.
DESTROYER PROCEEDING TO SCENE. (UNITED I-r.GSS ASSOCIATION —BY 25LECT&IC TELEGRAPH —COPTBIGHT.) (Received June 11th, 10.45 p.m.) WILLISMSTAD (Curacao), June 11. A Dutch destroyer is proceeding to the Dutch West Indies as the result of an invasion by 600 armed Venezuelans, who arrived following upon an incipient revolution in their own country. The invaders seized arms and ammunition and imprisoned the Island's Governor and garrison's commandant. They then compelled the master of an American vessel to carry them back to the mainland.—Australian Press Association.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19643, 12 June 1929, Page 10
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