ARRESTS IN LISBON
OPPONENTS OF PRESIDENT CARMONA (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. Reuters Lisbon correspondent says that six prominent supporters of General de Matos, the Opposition candidate who withdrew from the Portuguese Presidential election, have been arrested “as Communist elements involved in subversive and revolutionary attempts.”
Mammoth Said to Have Been Found. —Moscow newspapers report that Soviet Polar workers in northern Siberia have discovered a complete and perfectly preserved body of a mammoth which lay in perpetually frozen soil with only the tusks emerging. The spot has been marked for scientists who in the spring will lift the body, which the intense cold has preserved for thousands of years.—London, February 16.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25732, 18 February 1949, Page 7
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