NAVAL MUTINY.
DEVELOPMENTS IN ECUADOR. Received April 9, 1 p.m. GUAYQUIL (Ecuador), April 8. The Federal troops who were sent on Thursday to Fort Punta Piedra, which is still in the hands of tho rebels, were withdrawn on Friday, and it appeared that the Army was getting ready to blast the mutineers out with aeroplane bombs. General Leonidas Plaza Gutierrez, the former President, whose reappearance in Equador is believed to have caused Ihe rebellion, was on his way to Quito by rail on Friday. In the meantime the authorities have ordered the port to be closed to all marine traffic in an effort to starve out the mutinous Navy, which seized Equador’s two gunboats on Thursday and a steamer up the river in front of the forts. This was to prevent a repetition of the raid when one of the warships darted out and captured the British tanker Buaro. The tanker reached the port of Salinas on Friday. The captain explained that the rebels stated that all they wanted was to have him to tow the gunboat Cotopaxi a short distance because the gunboat’s engines were not functioning. A message relative to the above appears on page 7.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 110, 9 April 1932, Page 8
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198NAVAL MUTINY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 110, 9 April 1932, Page 8
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