REVOLT IN MADEIRA.
TROOPS SET UP MILITARY JUNTA. ATTACK ON PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT. CRUISER SENT TO FUNCHAL. (Received Monday, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, April 5. A message from Funchal, Madeira, says that allegedly under the Instigation of deportees from Lisbon, local troops, with troops sent from. Lisbon to deal with a recent general strike, revolted, arrested the -High Commissioner and the civil and military governors, took over the telegraphs and telephones, the Bank of Portugal and the local Finance Department and nominated General Sousa Dias as Governor and head of a. military junta which has issued a manifesto declaring that the movement is aimed at abolishing the revolutionary regime in Lisbon. The Government to-morrow is despatching a cruiser and a machine-gun battalion to Funchal.
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Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1931, Page 5
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