REVOLT IN CHILE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21201, 6 June 1932, Page 9

REVOLT IN CHILE.

GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN. RIOTING OUTSIDE PALACE. (Received June 5, 10.15 p.m.) NEW YORK. Juno 5. A message from Santiago, Chile, states that a revolution broke out there to-day with the Army and the Air Corps as its nucleus. Carlos da Vila, one of the leaders, accompanied by Air 1' orco officers and men, marched on the President s palace to overthrow tho President, Senor Juan Esteban Montero. Aeroplanes wero flown low over the Government building, but tho airmen dropped no bombs. Volunteer troops, said to number 75,000, were organised rapidly to resist attack. Subsequently, threo peoplo were killed and 60 wounded in a riot near the palace. In the evening the revolutionary junta headed by Senor da Vila, who formerly was Chilean Ambassador to tho United States, overthrow tho Government.

Preparations are being mado 1o establish a socialistic State, but it is to bo free from Russian Sovictism.

Tho deposed President of Chile, Senor Juan Esteban Montero, was a newcomer to politics, when, oil October 5, 1931, ho was elected to tho post. His election was attended by disorders and marked by at least five deaths and perhaps ten. Senor Montero decisively defeated Ins Radical opponent, Senor Arturo Alessandri. He took tho post vacated by Senor Carlos Ibanez, who had been overthrown in the previous July and fled to Argentina.