NATION-WIDE PLOT.
DISCOVERY BY ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT. DECLARATION OF A STATE OF SIEGE. FORMER PRESIDENTS & OTHERS ARRESTED. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, December 16. Declaring that a seditious movement to overthrow the Administration through a terrorist programme had been uncovered, the Argentine Government on Friday night called a meeting of Congress for Saturday to declare a state of siege. The former Presidents, Marcelo De Alvear and Hipolito Irigoyen, and Adolfo Guemes, Radical Leader, were arrested, along with thirty former police and army officials. The arrests came after tho seizure by the .police of thousands of bombs, allegedly for use in a nation wide plot by extremists. The Government published a declaration that the plan was to kill high officials and seize public buildings. The announcement said the plot was frustrated and that the state of siege would bo short—only long enough to complete moans of defence. An accidental explosion revealed a store of bombs in a. suburb -of Flores. The occupants of the building fled, but the. police found a list of sixty names and started making arrests. The War Minister said the Army was not involved in tho movement. He stated that the outbreak was scheduled for Friday, in the interior as well as in the capital. A state of siege is already virtually established. An attempted "-. acai demonstration at Buenos Aires was quietly dispersed by large numbers of police on Friday night.
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Wairarapa Age, 19 December 1932, Page 5
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