STATE OF SIEGE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 7, 19 December 1932, Page 7

STATE OF SIEGE

ARGENTINE DECLARATION.

NATION-WIDE PLOT DISCOVERED.

Buenoe Aires, Dec. 16.

Declaring that a seditious movement to overthrow the Administration through a terrorist programme had been uncovered, the Argentine Government on Friday called a meeting of Congress for Saturday to declare a state of siege. The former Presidents, Marcelo Dealveara and Hipolito Irrigoyen, and Adolfo Guemes, the Radical leader, have been arrested along with 30 former police and army officials.

The arrests came after the seizure by the police of 1000 bombs allegedly for use in a nation-wide plot by extremists.

The Government has published a declaration that the plan was to kill high officials and seize public buildings. The announcement said the plot was frustrated and the state of siege would bo short—only long enough to complete the means of defeat.

Later an accidental explosion revealed a store of bombs in the suburb of Flores The occupants fled, but the police found a list of 60 names and started making arrests.

The War Minister said the army was not involved in the movement which is said to have been scheduled for an outbreak on Friday in the interior as well as in the capital. The state of siege is already virtually established. An attempted Radical demonstration at Buenos Aires was quietly dispersed by large numbers of police on Friday night.