PROMPT REPRISALS.
BOLIVIA PREVENTS UPRISING LA PAZ (Bolivia), July 21.
A loriner Finance Minister, Victor Paz Estcnssom, has been arrested at I'arija, in the heart of the Bolivian oilfields, in connection with the abortive Nazi putsch which last night threw the country into a state of siege. The police have also arrested four civilian members of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, led by Major Elias Belmonte, Bolivian military attache in Berlin, and a German, former manager of Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, named Schroth. Four newspapers, two of which are included in 'Washington's black list., have been .suspended. The proclamation of the state of siege automatically dissolved the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, which the Government describes as a small party formed with the connivance of German residents of La Paz.
The President (General Enrique Penaranda) who has taken personal control in cleaning up the situation, advocates full co-operation with the T’nited States in defence of the Western Hemisphere.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 197, 22 July 1941, Page 5
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