MINING STRIKE IN CHILE: COMMUNIST UPRISINGS ALLEGED
LONDON, August 20.—The Santiago correspondent of the United Press says that the entire Chilean Navy was mobilised today to help prevent uprisings in nitrate fields and coalmines near the coast. The Government has declared modified martial law throughout the country. About 2500 miners in the Lota and the Lirquen collieries went on strike this morning. At Lota 500 men refused to come up from the pits. The President (Mr Gabriel Gonzalez Videla) said that Communists and other opposition groups were seeking to overthrow him by means of a general strike. “My Government is determined to take all necessary measures against the leaders of the organisations, which are plotting a veritable revolutionary conspiracy,” he said. Half of the fleet has been sent to northern ports and the other 1 half to the south. The Chilean fleet comprises a 14-inch-gun battleship of 30,000 tons, the Almirante Latqrre, the Chacabuco, a cruiser of 10,000 tons, six destroyers, and a considerable number of frigates, corvettes, submarines, and auxiliary units.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1949, Page 5
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