STATE OF SIEGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23317, 28 September 1945, Page 5

STATE OF SIEGE

Government Action In Argentina Liberties Suspended By Telegraph N.Z. Press Assn Copyright <7.30 p.m.) BUENO AIRES, Sept. 26. The Argentine Government has reimposed a stale of siege, suspending most of the people’s liberties. The correspondent of the Associated American Press says that the state of siege, winch was lifted last July after operating for more than three and a half years, suspends the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of tiie Press and freedom of assembly. The Government by iate this afternoon had rounded up more than 50 prominent citizens, including the president of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange (Senor Eustaquio Delfino), the president of the Argentine Industrial Union (Senor Luis Colombo), and Senor Rodolfo Moreno, former governor of Buenos Aires and former Ambassador to Japan. General Edeimiro J. Farrell (President! announced that the state of siege in Argentina should be regarded as u transitory measure, not altering the promise of a genera! election before the end of the year. The Presidential decree claimed that the Government action was to stop the growing campaign aimed at an alteration of the present order and conducted by an oligarchy of certain sections of the Press anti professional men. The police are continuing raids resulting in the arrest of virtually every leading Argentinian in the field of public service. The police occupied the premises of the evening newspaper, “Critica,” which is not expected to publish and also raided the premises of other evening papers and imposed a heavy censorship. Police headquarters announced the arrest of 51 high-ranking retired naval officers, who issued a manifesto on September 23 demanding the restoration of the constitution and free elections The police occupied the headquarters of the Communist Party, arresting 23. Additional prominent people taken to police headquarters include Senor Carlos Lamas, winner of the Nobel Prize for 1936. for work as Foreign Minister; Octavio Amadeo, the nation's leading historian and biographer; Nerio Rojas, leader of the Union Civlca Radical. Argentina’s Majority Party: Alfredo Palacious. leading Socialist, who recently returned from exile in Uruguay: Ramon Vasquez. a former judge, who recently charged the Federal police with torturing political prisoners, and fled to the Uruguayan Embassy for refuge.

The Chief of Buenos Aires Police. Colonel Fi’omeno Velazco. told reporters: “The real revolution in this country begins now, because your newspapers have wanted it that way.”