RISING IN CHILE
FASCISTS DEFEATED
FOUR HOURS' FIGHTING
58 PERSONS KILLED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SANTIAGO (Chile), Sept. 5. A Fascist uprising was put down today after four hours' fighting, in which artillery and machine-gun fire threw the city, into panic. Young Chilean Nacistas (Fascists), in a surprise attack, seized the university and the 10-storey Workers' Assurance building, commanding th^e Presidential palace. x
Carabineers faced a blaze of revolver fire, but after artillery had broken down the doors the majority of the Nacistas surrendered, more than eighty
being arrested, including General Carlos Ibanez, the Nacista candidate for the Presidential elections to be held on October 25. '
The Government announced that 58 persons were killed.
The Nacistas form a political party with aims and objects borrowed from the German Nazis.
President Alessandri is seeking authority to declare a state of siege throughout the country.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 59, 7 September 1938, Page 11
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