POLICE ROUND-UP

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21830, 28 September 1945, Page 3

POLICE ROUND-UP

OPPOSITION FACTIONS

ARGENTINE JUNTA’S RULE

LEADING MEN DETAINED (10 a.m.) BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 27. The Argentine President, General Farrell, announced that the state of siege in Argentina should be regarded as a transitory measure which would not alter his promise of a general election before the end of the year. The presidential decree claimed that the Government's action was to stop the growing campaign aimed at the alteration of the present order and conducted by an oligarchy of certain sections of the press and professional men. The police are continuing raids, resulting in the arrest of virtually every leading Argentinian in the field of public service. The police occupied the premises of the evening newspaper La Critica, which is not expected to publish and also raided the premises of other evening papers and imposed a heavy censorship. Police headquarters announced the arrect of 51 high-ranking retired naval officers who issued a manifesto on September 23 demanding the restoration of the constitution and free elections. The police occupied the Community Party headquarters and arrested 26. Among the prominent people taken to police headquarters were Scnor Carlos Lamas, winner of the Nobel Peace Price for 1935 for his work as Foreign Minister, Senor Octavio Air.adeo, the nation’s leading historian and biographer, Senor Nerio Rojas, leader of the union Civica Radical, Argentina’s majority party. Senor Alfredo Palacious, n leading Socialist who recently returned from exile in Uruguay, Senar Ramon Vasquez, a former judge who recently charged the Federal police with torturing political prisoners and fled to the Uruguayan Embassy for refuge.

The chief of the Buenos Aires police, Colonel Filomeno Vclnzco, told reporters: “The real revolution in this country begins now because your newspapers have wanted it that way."