VENEZUELA DISTURBANCE
CASUALTIES NUMBER 300 BANDITRY OR REVOLUTION? REBELS SACK THE CAPITAL THE DEFENCES SURPRISED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 8 p.m. Bogota, Dec. 21. The Colombia newspaper reports that the toll of the revolutionary disturbance in south-western Venezuela is 300. The revolutionaries captured the town of La Batera, killing the civil chief and burning the city hall and public archives. The Government troops were surprised and were' unable to defend the city. A communique issued at San Cristobel, the capital of the State of Tachira, in which La Batera is situated, said the outbreak was bandit depredation without a revolutionary motive.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1930, Page 9
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