MINERS REVOLT IN BOLIVIA
Eeceived Thursday, 8 p.m. LA PAZ (Bolivia). Jan. 30. The newspaper La Razon says at least 10 police were killed -and 50 injured when striking miners' at Potosi dynamited Police headquarters on Tuesd'ay night. Tlie miners' casualties are unknown because the miners/ dragged the bodies away ahd barricaded themselves in the mine. The Ministry of th« Interior announced that it had ordered out sttong detaehmeui.s of troops aii,. reeonnaissance planes to quell the disturbance. La Eazon asserts th^at the miners were supported by members of the Nationalist Iievolutionary movement yhich was ousted from the Government on July 21 in a revolt in which President Yillarroel was hanged from a lamp post, Representatives of all political parties except the Nationalist Eevolutionary movement, met yesterday and formed an armed brigade of 500 men to defend Potosi,
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Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1947, Page 5
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