REBEL PLANS FAIL IN FURTHER RAID, ON BOLIVIAN CITY
LA PAZ, September 2 (Rec 11.25 a.m.). —Rebel planes again raided La Paz today, but Government anti-air-craft guns prevented them from doing damage, by keeping them at a great height. ; Most of the bombs missed city targets and landed in the surrounding mountains. - The Government confirmed that 30 political prisoners in the penal colony on Coati Island, in Lake Titicaca, escaped after killing the colony's governor, Daniel Navajas Roman. They fled to the Peruvian side of the lake. The Government also announced that it has regained control of three small towns .in the north Bolivian area of the Amazon -basin. '-. '
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1949, Page 5
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