GUATEMALA REVOLUTION

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1930, Page 9

GUATEMALA REVOLUTION

GOVERNMENT

MILITARY JUNTA IN CONTROL; MINISTER OF- WAR KILLED’ - SHARP. FIGHTING IN CITY ' V { 1 ■' - :7; ' '’ “ ; By. Telegraph-mPreaa Assn;—Copyright. • ;>. ■ Washington, Dec.' 17, The' Guatemalan .-Minister, Mr. was advised to-day that the Government and President Palma had been overthrown. The message .was signed Ridriquez Betela, secretary-general of .the. .military junta; which is now in control. \ 1 - ’ ~ It is said that General Mauro De Leon, former Minister of War,- was killed ,in the, fighting on;,Tuesday. ■ To-day conditions are tranquil., General Manuel Orellana has been designated' provisional .President; The American Charge d’Affaires ini Guatemala, .Mr. McCafferty, reported to the State .Department . that a > revolution had broken but with shhrp fighting, principally in Guatemala City. Private and t commercial dispatches likewise confirmed the outbreak. > ' / r , A The reports have / not - made clear the •political alignments of; the revolt, but ; id - ' is stated that the army is participating. It apparently was decided, last "week! that ; President Chacon was suffering from cerebral haemorrhage and it was declared that he was not fit to continue his duties. Pre-; sumably the revolution was inspired by the opponents of the provincial President* General'Palmp. . t ' . •> , KILLED NUMBER FIFTY-SEVEN - . ■ MESSAGE FROM GUATEMALA CITY. Rec. 7'p.m. Guatemala City, Dec. 17. Fifty-seven persons died in a coup d’etat . which on Tuesday unseated the new Gov-', ernment of General Baudillo .Palma and installed General Manuel Orellana as head ■ of the military junta which took oyer the administration of public affairs.