PARAGUAYAN REVOLT
ELECTRIC POWER STATION SEIZED (Rec. 11.15 a.m.) BUENO AIRES, April 28. Communications with Paraguay were severed shortly after midnight, when the Minister of the Interior, Dr Victor Morinigo, revealed that a contingent of rebel marines, instructed from rebel headquarters at Concepcion, had stormed Asuncion’s main power station and cut off the electricity. Dr Morinigo declared that loyal troops had recaptured the plant and restored order. Until this incident Paraguay’s 48-day civil war recently appeared to have reached a point of - stagnation.
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Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 6
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83PARAGUAYAN REVOLT Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 6
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