MADEIRA REVOLT ENDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20863, 4 May 1931, Page 9

MADEIRA REVOLT ENDS.

CHIEF TOWN RECOVERED. REBELS' MORALE BROKEN. BOMBARDMENT BY CRUISER. By Tclegra pli—Press Association— Copy light. (Received May 3. ft.s p.m.) LISBON'. May 2. Despatches from Madeira state that tlic revolt, lias ended. The Minister of the Interior announces that hunchal was handed over to tlic Government again toda v.

The rebel leaders took refuge at the British Consulate. A bombardment, carried out by the cruiser Vasco da Gama, broke the. rebel morale, but caused few casualties. Marines and bluejackets have landed to protect British lives and property.

No foreign residents or visitors were harmed and no civilians were injuicd. The cruiser's bombardment was at Rico Cruz, near Eunchal. Troops were landed and captured munitions. 'I hero were two bloodless landings elsewhere.

An earlier message from luinchal stated that the rebel leaders claimed to have repulsed bombardments and attacks in four places. The Portuguese transports, it was stated, could not approach the. island owing to artillery fire from the shore. Some, of tlio (iovernmont's forces were wounded and a destroyer had to be towed back to her base.

Detachments landed earlier struggled inland. They were impeded by hilly coun-

trv. The rebels' short-range guns could not reply to the marine bombardment. The Government recovered two steamers from tho rebels.

The. Yasco da (lama fired two shots, one of which deslroved the registrar's house a mile from a hotel where British residents were accommodated. It narrowly missed

an adjacent building containing 15 cliil (Iron.

Aeroplanes flew over Iho city, indicating that the bishop's peace efforts had failed.