REVOLT IN CHILE
ATTRIBUTED TO COMMUNISTS ft*" ■ HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED grow A»o«i*Moa—By Talograph—Copyright, SANTIAGO, December 26. Heavy fighting was continued to-day in Northern Chile, where 32 rebels and State police have been killed in a rising which is attributed to Communists. The police raided the Communist headquarters at Valparaiso to-night and niadq numerous arrests. FIGHTING IN ATACAMA ELEVEN PEOPLE KILLED. SANTIAGO, December 25. Three hundred armed men, variously reported as Communists or revolters against the Government of President Montcro, stormed the regimental barracks at Copiago, the provincial capital of Atacama. Eleven people, including two women, were killed in the fighting. Many soldiers who were away on Christmas leave were hastily sunmmonod to return and routed the mob.
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Evening Star, Issue 20986, 28 December 1931, Page 7
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