POLITICAL RIOTING IN COLOMBIA
LONDON, Nov 8 (Recd 8 pm).— The United Press Bogota correspondent says the newspaper “El Liberal” claimed* that political rioting at one point in Northern Colombia had reached the proportions of a pitched battle involving more than 1600 men. The newspaper said 120 soldiers and 1000 armed Conservatives had besieged 500 provincial policemen and Liberal villagers in Guaca village. Other sources in Colombia reported continuing unrest over the presidential elections, due on November 27. The Liberal and Conservative leaders made violent accusations against each other and the situation generally was tense. “El Liberal” said about 100 persons each day were fleeing across the border into Venezuela to escape persecution in Colombia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 9 November 1949, Page 5
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