REVOLT IN ANGOLA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18545, 16 April 1930, Page 9

REVOLT IN ANGOLA.

SHORT-LIVED UPRISING. (United Press Association—By Blectrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) CAPETOWN, April 14. A short-lived revolution in Angola Colony led to dramatic events. The High Commissioner, Commandant Filomeno Camara, left Loanda to visit Benguella and his secretary Senor Saramento, assumed responsibility and issued orders to Colonel Almoida, Chief of the military, who refused to obey him.

Upon this Senor Saramento led an armed party to arrest Colonel Almoida, and Senor Saramento was fatally shot. Commandant Camara, believing that Senor Saramento had been killed by mutinous troops, armed the natives, with a view to restoring order, and sent a wireless message to a gunboat to intercept steamers from Loanda. The Lisbon Government has sent wireless instructions to close Loanda to the liner Africa, which is expected there, and it has deposed both Commandant Camara and Colonel Almoida, and is sending out new officials. The wireless operator has been imprisoned for refusing to obey orders. One native soldier was killed.

(Angola (Portuguese West Africa), has belonged to the Portuguese since 1575, with the exception of the years 1641 to 1648, when it was held by the Dutch. It is under a High Commander, who resides at Loanda, and is vested with large powers. The military force is composed of 740 Europeans and 6000 natives.)