MILITARY RULE

Grey River Argus, 8 June 1943, Page 5

MILITARY RULE

IN ARGENTINA Only One Small Battle ORDER NOW RESTORED. NEUTRALITY PRESERVED. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Rec. 6.30.) NEW YORK, June 6. Calm prevails in Buenos Aires. The Government is carrying on business as usual. On the orders of the new President, General Rawson, the headquarters of all the political parties have been virtually closed. A ban has been placed on any meeting of more than three persons on any political committee.

Thai the revolution is of an antiCommunist character is revealed in. a special order to the police to suppress any statement which the Communist Party is reported secretly to be preparing. The newspapers are published as usual, including pro-Nazi papers “El Pampero,” and “El Cabildo.”

President Rawson and the members of the Cabinet attended the burial of nineteen soldiers who were killed] in a brief fight at the Naval Engineering School at the outset of the revolt. ’ No casualty list was published. It is believed at least fifty soldiers and fifteen civilians were killed, and a hundred and fifty injured. It was the only clash of the revolution.

The Bueons Aires correspenent of the Associated Press said it was reported, but with no confirmation, that General Rawson had informed foreign diplomats his Government would “work for a better understanding with other American nations, but is not prepared to relinquish Argentine’s neutrality in the war.” No official statement is expecteu before noon on Monday, when the new Cabinet will be sworn in. At Buenos Aires last night, diplomats representing all foreign and American nations discussed General Rawson’s Argentine coup at the horns of the Chilean Ambassador, Senor Conrado Gallardo, who later announced that the meeting had decided that the diplomats should await formal advices from the new Government concerning its constitution “before negotiating its recognition by the Governments we represent*.” (Rec. 9.20) NEW YORK, June 7. The Buenos Aire's correspondent oi the United Press of America stated: Most of the revolutionary troops have been withdrawn from Buenos Aires, but there are artillery and anti-air-craft units still posted at the Casaroda. which is the chief Government building, while police, armed with bayonetted rifles are preventing the public from crossing in front of the presidential offices. The Rawson Government has obtained support from at least two important Liberal political groups. Leaders of the Union Civica (Radical), the largest party in the Argentine, stated their party put faith in the revolutionary leaders' aims adding, “We are convinced it is possible to improve the Nation’s moral and political health.' A leading non-political anti-fascist group, Accion Argentine, announced its support, and said that immediate success of the revolution was unequivocal proof that, the Castillo Government had not interpreted the popular will. The Socialist Party leaders, however, said that the’y are withholding any statements until the Government has clarified its policy on foreign atfairs and on the political status of the Argentine provinces.