ALLEGED PLOT IN SIAM
POLICE ARREST 11 SUSPECTS (Rec. 8 p.m.) BANGKOK, Aug. 26. Siamese police today arrested 11 “Communist suspects” whom, they claimed, were plotting to overthrow the Government of Field-Marshal Pibul Songgram. Lieutenant-General Kat Katsonvgram, a former deputy army com-mander-in-chief and one of the chief engineers who staged a coup d’etat in November, 1947, which brought the present regime into power, was at the head of the list of those arrested. Another arrested is Nai Sanit Phewnuan, a former assistant finance undersecretary and nephew of the former Premier, Pridi Banomyong, who has been in mysterious exile since the 1947 coup. Police say that everything is quiet in Bangkok and that more arrests may be made. I
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27130, 28 August 1953, Page 10
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