MADEIRA REBELLION
SUPPRESSION MEASURES THOUSANDS OP TROOPS. SURRENDER DEMAND. --I* ‘ ——— J (United. Press Association —By Electric" Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) LISBON, April 7, The official declaration of a state of war, following the revolt in Madeira, was speedily followed by the despatch of thousands of troops aboard the Pedro Gomez, from which they will be disembarked under cover of the guns of a cruiser. Another steamer carries artillery, four aeroplanes, and also the new Governor, Senor Bordes, who demands the surrender of the rebels. When the Portuguese Government sent troops from Lisbon to Madeira to deal with a recent general strike at Funchal, the chief town of the island, both those troops and the local detachments revolted. The rebels arrested the High Commissioner and the Civil and Military Governors, seized the telegraphs, telephones, the Bank of Portugal aud the local Finance Department, and nominated General Sousa Dias as Governor and head of a uew military junta. A manifesto issued by This junta stated the aim of the rebels to be the abolition of the original revolutionary regime.
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Northern Advocate, 8 April 1931, Page 5
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