REVOLT EPIDEMIC

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11405, 5 January 1931, Page 5

REVOLT EPIDEMIC

PANAMA RULERS DEPOSED

YOUTHFUL REBELS CAPTURE PRESIDENT.

NEW REGIME PROCLAIMED

HI P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright! PANAMA, CITY, Jan. 2. A sudden revolt to-day overthrew the Government of President Arosemena, and the capital republic passed into the hands of a revolutionary junta headed by Harmadio Arias. ' Ten persons were killed and a Score wounded in fighting about- the palace and the police station. . The President this afternoon resigned, naming Senor Arias to form a Cabinet.

The Supreme Court appointed Senor Arias President of the Bar Association, as head of the Provisional Government, and as “Secretary of the Government and Justice in charge of the Government.” . A manifesto signed by representative citizens was issued as a pledge of the revolutionaries to respect all international obligations. PANAMA CITY, Jan. 2. The youthful revolutionists rose against the Government at 3 o’clock in the morning, captured the President. and proclaimed a provisional regime. President Arosemena. is in rebel hands. ;

As the presidential palace fell the hostilities centred around the central police station as well as the palace, Loyal Federal police ,'met the insurrectionists with machine gun fire, hut were unable to prevail ■ against them.

Hart-well Ayres, an American newspaper correspondent, was shot in the ahdo-men by a stray bullet-. He is not expected to live.