POLICE FRUSTRATE PLOT TO GAIN POWER IN SIAM
(11 a.m.) BANGKOK, Oct. 1. The Siamese police today frustrated what is officially described as a major plot to overthrow the Government by force. Squads of armed police swooped down on the alleged plotters just before dawn and arrested 22 persons, including a number of military officers and civil officials. More arrests are expected. A Government spokesman said the existence of the plot had been known to the authorities for a long time, but the arrests were deliberately postponed until today—the day the plotters had set for their coup. The present Government of Siam, headed by Marshal Phibul Songgram assumed office in mid-April following a military coup d'etat in November of last year. Rumblings of plots and counterplots have been heard in Bangkok since last year’s coup d’etat but this is the first time that large-scale arrests have taken place.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22758, 2 October 1948, Page 5
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148POLICE FRUSTRATE PLOT TO GAIN POWER IN SIAM Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22758, 2 October 1948, Page 5
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