REVOLUTION IN ARGENTINA.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20099, 1 December 1930, Page 5

REVOLUTION IN ARGENTINA.

I FIGHTING WAS SERIOUS. | | AX AUSTRALIAN RETURNS. f [THE PKESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON", November 30. Dr. W. G. Woolnough, of Canberra, arrived at Buenos Ayres last. Septomber to study the oilfields, and narrowly missed studying the battlefields instead. He is geological adviser to the ! Commonwealth Government, and arrived in Wellington by the Rotorua last evening, after six months spent in the United States and Argentina, on a Government mission for the purpose of inspecting and reporting on up-to-date methods ot prospecting on large oilfields. He just missed the insurrection at Buenos Ayrcs, arriving there a few days after it finished, although tho population was still extremely jumpy. The revolution proper, ho explained, took place on Saturday, September Otli, and there was another outbreak on the following Monday. Although it was being fought on a popular question, and interest was widespread in the Republic, the uprising was confined entirely to Buenos Ayres itself. Certain parts of the city were fairly well shot up, said r>r. Woolnough, and it was safe to say that there were a good many more casualties than were reported. While it lasted, the fighting in Buenos Ayrcs was quite serious, and field guns wero used in tho streets.

People Well Satisfied. "The bulk of the population," he added, "were highly satisfied with the result." This result, Dr. Woolnough continued, was the expulsion of the Irigoyen Government, and the assumption of Government by a Cabinet with General Uriburu as its Leader. Dr. Woolnough arrived in Buenos Ayrcs a day or two later than the Monday on wliieh the fighting died down, and found that business was practically normal, with the city perfectly quiet. Tho people were still very nervous and jumpy, however, and there wero soldiers everywhere. All males entering the post offices were searched for concealed arms, and Dr. Woolnough himself had to undergo an examination every time he posted a letter or sent away a dispatch. Nervous Populace. To illustrate the nervous leeling among the populace, Dr. Woolnough told a story which sounded like a musical comedy tale. A railway station refreshment room was crowded one evening towards tho end of the week, he said, and one of tho waiters inadvertently dropped a pilo of plates. They fell with a clatter, and everyone in the place immediately rushed to cover behind pillars, and everywhere where partial concealment was afforded. They resumed their places when the situation became clear to them: but tho plates falling had cleared tlie place in a fow seconds. There is no doubt, said Dr. Woolnough in conclusion, that the present Government has the cntiro confidence of tho people.