FIGHTING AROUND PALACE

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 3 January 1931, Page 7

FIGHTING AROUND PALACE

LATE EDITION

TEN PERSONS KILLED

REVOLT IN PANAMA

PRESIDENT RESIGNS

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph

Copyright.) Received 1.15 p.m. to-day. PANAMA CITY, Jan. 2

‘Ten persons were killed and a score wounded in fighting about the palace and the police station. The President this afternoon resigned naming Signor Arias to form a Cabinet.

Youthful revolutionists rose against the Government at three in the morning. They captured the president and proclaimed a provisional regime. As the presidential palace fell hostilities centred around the central police station as well as the palace. Koval Federal police met the insurrectionists with machine gun fire, but were unable to prevail against them. Hartwell Ayres, an American newspaper correspondent was fatally shot in the abdomen by a stray bullet. 'He is not expected to live.

P ROYJSTONA D GOV ERNMENT.

Received 1.15 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, Jan. 2

Signor Arosemea has resigned the Presidency of Panama and the Supreme "Court has appointed Signor Arias, the President of the Bar Association as head of a provisional government and “Secretary of the Government and Justice in charge of Government. “ A manifesto signed by representative citizens has been issued as a pledge of the revolutionaries to respect all international obligations.