COUP IN BOLIVIA.
ARMY OFFICERS & SOCIALISTS COMBINE.
PRESIDENT COMPELLED TO RESIGN.
OUTCOME OF AFTER-WAR UNREST.
(Received Monday, 9.30 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, May 17. According to reports from La Paz, the Government of Bovilia fell to-day after a bloodless coup d’etat by a junta composed of Army officers and civilian Socialists. There is unrest among the people as an aftermath of the war with Paraguay, whose War Government likewise was recently overthrown. Whereas the new Paraguayan Government is Fascist, the new regime formed in La Paz to-day appears to be of Leftist inclination. The coup was effected with a minimum of disorder. The junta appeared at the palace and demanded the resignation of the President, Senor Luis Tejada Sorzano, which request was immediately complied with. Senor Sorzano himself acquired power through a putsch in 1934.
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Wairarapa Age, 19 May 1936, Page 5
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