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COSTA RICAN CLAIMS PLANES ATTACK CITY USE OF GERMAN RIFLES (10 a.m.) SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, March 16. The Government has announced that its troops have captured the rebel stronghold of San Cristobal, 45 miles south of San Jose, and that the country is now completely calm. The Government claimed that its ground forces supported by bombing planes yesterday recaptured the southern town of El Empalme from rightwing rebels, taking 180 prisoners and seizing a magazine containing 40,000 rounds of ammunition. Each prisoner was armed with a new rifle of German manufacture. The Government also said that the father and a brother of Figueres, the rebel leader, were killed yesterday during a Government air attack on the rebel stronghold. Earlier, the pro-Government newspaper La Tribuna reported that Figueres and a large part of his forces had been surrounded.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22588, 17 March 1948, Page 5
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