COMMUNISTS IN BOLIVIA

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25328, 30 October 1947, Page 7

COMMUNISTS IN BOLIVIA

QUELLING OF LOCAL REVOLT REPORTED CLASH IN TOWN NEAR BRAZILIAN BORDER (Rec. 7 p.m.) LA PAZ (Bolivia), October 28. The Bolivian Ministry of the Interior has announced that the police have put down a Communist revolt at Guajara Mirim, near the Brazilian border. “Members of the Marxist Left Revolutionary Party, armed with machine-guns, attacked the Town Hall yesterday in an effort to prevent the newly-elected mayor, who belongs to the Rightist Party, from taking office,” said the announcement. “Civilians aided the police, but there was considerable shooting before order was restored. The police arrested six of the rebels.’’

An earlier message from Rio de Janeiro said that the Governor ot the Brazilian frontier territory of Guapore, Colonel Joaquin Rondon, reported that Communist elements had captured the Bolivian border town of Guajara Mirim. Brazilian troops were moving up to safeguard the frontier ana the Brazilian Government had ordered the border authorities to be on the alert to prevent infiltration by Bolivian Communist leaders. Brazil recently outlawed the Communist Party.

Plane Crash Near Athens.— One hundred and eighty army stretcher-bearers have begun carrying the remains of the 45 victims of the Skymaster crash down Mount Hymettus. Not a single body was intact. Sixty mules will carry the remains part of the way to the nearest road. The newspaper “Vradyni” says that the aeroplane’s altimeter needle pointed to 2250 feet. The mountain is 3063 feet high. Swedish experts have reached Athens to begin investigating the cause of the crash. The police have arrested 13 villagers and charged them with looting from the - wreckage.—-Athens, October 20.