MINERS REVOLT
SHOOTING IN BOLIVIA TROOPS ORDERED OUT THREAT TO GOVERNMENT (10 a.m.) LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 30. The newspaper La Razon says that at least 10 policemen were killed and 50 injured when striking miners at Potosi dynamited the police headquarters on Tuesday night. The miners’ casualties are unknown because they dragged the bodies away and barricaded themselves in a mine. The Ministry of the Interior announced that it ordered out strong detachments of troops and reconnaissance planes to quell the disturbance. La Razon asserts that the miners were supported by members of the Nationalist Revolutiontary Movement which was ousted from the Government on July 21 in a revolt in which President Villarroel was hanged from a lamp-post. „ .... , The representatives of all political parties, except the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, met yesterday and formed an armed brigade of 500 men to defend Potosi.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22243, 31 January 1947, Page 5
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