UNREST IN SALVADOR
THE PRESIDENT RESIGNS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, May 9. The President nf Salvador. Genera! Maximiliano Martinez, has_ resigned as the result of a situation arising from a general strike, says the Associated Press... He has been in office for 13 years, and his present six-year term expires next November. The Panama correspondent of the ' New York .Times ' says aeroplanes are forbidden to land in Salvador. All the husiness houses in San Salvador, the capital, have been closed as a protest against the execution of Dr Arturo Romero, the leader of the abortive revolt against General Martinez last April. Rebels said that executions were occurring every day.
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Evening Star, Issue 25172, 11 May 1944, Page 4
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110UNREST IN SALVADOR Evening Star, Issue 25172, 11 May 1944, Page 4
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