REVOLUTIONS FEARED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 1 September 1930, Page 11

REVOLUTIONS FEARED.

AMERICAN REPUBLICS UNEASY.

ECONOMIC DEPRESSION. PRECAUTIONS IN BUENOS AYRES. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) (Received August 31st, 4.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 29. Four American republics, Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, and Peru, are involved in serious military and political unrest. According to the News Association advices, the Argentine Government is apprehensive lest a section of the army should revolt. Impressive precautions are being taken at Buenos Ayres. The destroyer flotilla has been ordered to the capital, while troops are guarding the residence of President Irigoyen and other Government buildings. There is a tonso situation in Brazil, where a revolutionary movement in the State of Rio Grande do Sul is reported. All Federal troops throughout the republic have been ordered to be confined to barracks.

Havana reports that the Cuban Government is ready to proclaim martial law in the State of Matanzas, where the authorities are having difficulty in quelling riots over political issues. The arrest of a score of politicians in the State of Santa Clara frustrated a plot to overthrow the Government.

Situation in Peru. The situation in Peru is less serious. A new Government headed by the revolutionary leader, Sanche Cerro, who deposed President Leguia, is prosecuting important officials of the previous regime as a precaution against a counterrevolution, which is still feared. The military committee which is ruling Peru has elected Senor Sanche Cerro as President of the Republic. Senor Leguia, who is a virtual prisoner aboard a cruiser in Callao Harbour, has been ordered ashpre for a trial on a charge of malfeasance. The current wave of unrest throughout South America has apparently been precipitated by the economic depression resulting from depressed markets in wheat, sugar, coffee, and other commodities.

LESS ALARMING REPORTS. ANOTHER REPUBLIC INVOLVED, j (Received August 31st, 7.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 30. Developments in the South American revolutionary situation to-day were of a less alarming nature. Officials at Washington stressed the economic aspects of the situation and held that the depression was principally responsible. The State Department has authorised its representatives in Peru to act in order to protect the rights as American citizens of Lieutenant Commander Grow and Charles Sutton, who are now being held for trial by the Peruvian Junta. Grow, who is an American naval reservist, was lent to Peru for air service. He has been charged with being a mercenary by Senor Cerro, the revolutionary leader. The latter to-day suspended the constitutional guarantees of individual liberty in order to deprive exPresident Leguia of a technical right to evade prosecution. The Argentine Government redoubled its precautions in Buenos Ayres to-day to block a possible uprising. Troops were still confined to barracks and their officers ordered to remain with them.

The Brazilian Ambassador at Washington Issued a formal statement that rumours of revolt in Rio Grande do Sul were without foundation. The Guatemalan Cabinet resigned today en masse, President Chacon accepting the resignations. No explanation was made.

TROOPS AT BUENOS AYRES REINFORCED. BUENOS AYRES, August 30. Reinforcements of heavily armed troops were brought in to-day by the Government as a precaution against a possible outbreak or an attempt to President Irigoyen. A regiment of cavalry mardftsd in from Camp Mayo with full war equipment, while thousands of soldiers are either guards ing strategic positions or held in quarters for instant duty.