SUDDEN REVOLT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 28, 3 January 1931, Page 7

SUDDEN REVOLT

republic of panama.

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT SET

NUMBER KILLED IN FIGHTING. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). Received January 3, 9.30 a.m.

PANAMA CITY, Jan. 2.

A sudden revolt to-day overthrew the Government of President Arosejnena and the capital of the Republic passed into the hands of a revolutionary Junta headed by Senor Harmadio Arias president of the Bar Association. Ten persons were killed and a score wounded in fighting about the palace and the police station. Senor Arias has been appointed head of the Provisional Government, and as “Secretary of Government and Justice in charge of the Government.” A manifesto, signed by representative citizens, has been issued as a pledge of the revolutionaries to respect all international obligations. EARLY MORNING BATTLE. The revolutionists rose against the Government at three 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, but were unable to prevail against them. Mr Hartwell Ayres, an American newspaper correspondent, „ was fatally shot in the abdomen by a stray bullet. He is not expected to live.