THE PANAMA REVOLT
YOUNG REVOLUTIONISTS GUN FIRE INEFFECTIVE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received January 3, 1 p.m.) PANAMA CITY, Jan. 2. The youthful revolutionists rose against the Government, at 3 o’clock in the morning, captured the President, and proclaimed a provisional regime. President Amscinena is in rebel hands. As the presidential palace fell the hostilities centred around the central police station as well as the palace. Loyal Federal police met the insurrectionists with machine gnu fire, but were unable to prevail against them.
Hartwell Ayres, an American newspaper correspondent, was shot in the abdomen by a stray bullet. He is not expected to live.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17456, 3 January 1931, Page 6
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105THE PANAMA REVOLT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17456, 3 January 1931, Page 6
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