BUENOS AYRES REVOLT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20027, 8 September 1930, Page 11

BUENOS AYRES REVOLT.

GOVERNMENT OVERTURNED. * NAVY ASSISTS THE ARMY. BATTLE IN A STREET. . (fIxiTED PRKS3 ASSOCIATION— B7 ELECTRIC telegraph —copyright.) (Received September 7th, 5.5 p.m.) BUENOS AYRES, September 6. The Argentine Navy, with ships lying in Bueuos Ayres harbour, to-day joined the Army Ln the mutiny against the Senor Hipolito Irigoyen, who on Friday delegated his Presidential powers to the Vice-President, Senor Martinez. Admiral Storni, commanding a squadron of thirteen warships, sent a note to the Government announcing that the Navy would firo no shots against its Army colleagues led by General Jose Evaristo Uriburu The note was signed by all officers of the squadron. The entire Navy, consisting of 7000 officers and men, is said to have gone over to the movement against Senor Irygoyen and his influence. Population in the Dark. Buenos Ayres is nervous, but outwardly calm. Probably four-fifths of the populace is in the dark about the significance of the fast-moving developments. The first death in the Army was reported from the suburban garrison at El Palomar. It was that of LietuenantColonel Francisco Torres, of the Air Service, who was shot by his fellow officers for refusing to join the moveinent. . , Many wcro wounded in clftsncs wuicn occurred during the night between the police and students, who were dissatisfied that Senor Irigoyen's withdrawal had been only a qualified one under the Argentine law which permits the President to retire for so long as he wishes, and to delegate his power to the VicePresident. The city is under martial law. Government Under Army Control. Later reports state that the revolution of the Army and the Navy was successful to-night, when the Government hoisted the white flag over Government House. Thus Senor Martinez stepped out and the country was handed over to the Army under General Uriburu and the Navy under Admiral Storni. Cabinet had held an all-day session in Government House, and as the columns of troops converged upon the building from two directions, the members decided to give up. Encounter in the Street. The military forces overturned the Government on Saturday night, after a sanguinary encounter with a little group of mounted police, in which some fifteen persons were killed and onj hundred were wounded. The earlier estimates of a thousand being killed seem to be exaggerated, although it is impossible to compile an accurate-list Among the wounded was Captain Enrique Padilla, a noted international polo player. Most of the casualties were among the civilians. The engagement took place in the Avenida de Mayo, in front of the newspaper "La Epoca," the Government organ, which later was sacked and burned by the, mob. General Uriburu. a noted 6oldier, took charge of the Government, named a civilian Cabinet, and issued a proclamation stating that the country was under strict military law. Senor Martinez, the Vice-President, when he resigned, told the commander of the local forces. General Toranzo, to lay down his arms. In the Provinces. The provinces have not been heard from, owing to the scanty communication, but it is reported that in La Plate, the capital of the province of Uuenos Ayres, public demonstrations demanded the resignation of Governor Corvetto. General Uriburu. in a proclamation, decrees execution before a firing squad for violators of the new regime's military law. Ex-President Arrested. Multitudes poured into Government House aftor the surrender, ransacking the office, ripping pictures of Senor Irigoyen from the walls, and then they burned them The Government later announced that tho, ex-President. Senor Irigoyen. had been arrested and confined to barracks. It was previously reported that he was in poor health. Students Take Part. Had Senor Irigoyen stepped out a few days before this clash would not have,taken place, but on"en student's blood was spilled they made a spectacular march, presaging the oven-urn of the Government. There were ten thousand of them, many of them high school bo.vs in shorts, and girls with braids of liair down their backs. They paraded down the town streets, with crape tied to the Argentine flags, and chey carried banners made from handkerchiefs dipped in the blood of the student who was killed on Thursday night. The Army's Grudge. The army, which m - Argentina has but infrequently mixed in politics, was easily enlisted in the revolutionary movement because of a grudge against Senor Irigoyen for recent promotions, which disregarded routine ranking, and which elevated officers who were known to be favourable to his Party. It was these officers who were quickly disarmed to-day, and two were killed because they wished to remain loyal to the Government. The Army, supported by the Navy, desired to keep the students' demonstrations within bounds, and therefore to-day marched upon the city with students and other civilians followine in motor-lorries It was remarked however, that even at the point of disturbance the crowd was extraordinarilv orderly. For a force engaged in a coup d'etat it obtained its objective bv steady pressure rather than by outright violenceThis evening the crisis seemed to have passed completely and the city was quiet. THE PART OF THE STUDENTS. PRESIDENT DECIDES TOO LATE. (Received September 7th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. September 6. Overcoming the censorship, which is obviously restricting the of news from Argentina, the "New York

Times" has, by means of a telephone to Lanacian and through its Monte Video correspondent employing the same method, obtained an excellent piccui © not on.y of the immediate facts of the revolution which are not complex, but also the necessary information concerning, the important instigatorv factors. To begin with, the "New York Times" is, unable to confirm the reports current in Buenos Ayres that a. thousand persons had been killed or Wounded in the revolutionary activities. Students, Armv. and Navy played a most important part in overturning Senor Irigoyen. Students, who always mix themselves up in LatinAmerican revolutionary movements, were strangely inactive during the last six „ days while the Irigoyen factions were trying to strengthen themselves to repulse the efforts made to displace them. Senor Iripcoyen's decision to turn the Presidency over to the VicePresident came too late; in fact, after the students' representatives had failed t<*' secure his consent to retire. Then tho students to the number of two thousand marched on Thursday upon the- Presidential palace and were fired upon. EARLIER REPORTS. BUENOS AYRES, September 5. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, President of the Argentine Republic, retired on Friday. Tho capital has been nnder heavy military guard for a week, and a stato of siego has been declared. President Irigoyen resigned in favour of the vice-President, Dr. Enrique V. Martinez, whose first act was a declaration of a state of siege. The President's resignation waß greeted throughout the city by the shrieking of sirens and the explosion of bombs. Dr. Juan Delia Campa, Minister for Justice, represented the entire Cabinet on Thursday night in urging the President to resign, but he held off. Since the conference the city has been excited by clashes between students and police. Two persons were killed and four wounded on Thursday night in a fight on the Plaza Mayo. Three thousand students held a demonstration on the Plaza on Friday. [Argentina is a confederation of fourteen States or provinces, all welded together by means of a Constitution framed much on the same lines as that of the United States. All the States goveru themselves autonomously, and have their own legislatures and laws, but there is* only one President, and one set of civil, penal, and commercial codes which are enacted bv the iMational Congress for the whole "country. The President governs for a term of six years, and he cannot be re-elected for the succeeding period, but he can after v on« administrative period has intervened-, That the care with President' Irigoyen. He was President between 1916 and 1922, and was again elected in 1928. There has never been in Argentina. PORTENTS IN THE REVOLT. OPINION OF U.S. OFFICIALS. (Received September 7th, 11 p.®*) NEV YORK, September 6. Washington officials commenting on the serious import to the United States of the revolution in this most stable and important of the LatinAmerican countries (Argentina) fay*: "It is hoped that a greater,degree ~vt co-operation will result from the new. political order that is developing in the Argentine. The charge has been frequently made that Senor Irigoyen was committed to a policy of combating any- claim which the United States might have as the leader of the Republics of the Western Hemisphere; that he sought to press this, policy particularly in Europe." It is stressed that Argentina is one of the few nations that failed to adhere to the Kellogg Pact and has failed to appoint an Ambassador to the United States for many months. Viewing the entire LatinAmerican situation, of which the Argentine revolt is the most important phase, the officials "are confident that LatinAmerica is making progress on the road to stable political conditions and that out of the present unrest will come a period of renewed order and prosperity." EFFECT ON WHEAT MARKET. (Received September 7th, 11 pjn.) CHICAGO, September 6. The Argentine revolution, with the suspension of trading in grain futures by the Buenos Ayres Exchange, injected a new factor into the world's wheat situation, and lifted wheat 4| cents.* Winnipeg made only a moderate response, closing at 1J to I|. FIRST REVOLT IN FORTY YEARS. MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN • POWER. (Received September 7th, 11.20 p.m.) BUENOS AYRES, September 6. Saturday's event shows that Senor Irigoyen's Radical Party, which in the last election gave him the greatest majority which any Argentine President ever received, is dead for the present at least. The Provisional Government is made up of Conservative leaders. With this revolution, the first in Argentina in forty years, tho military forces have followed the lead of Bolivia and Peru in recent months. Military Governments now rule those Republics.

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