BRAZIL WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1930, Page 5

BRAZIL WAR

A statement issued. MAJORITY OF STATES QUIET. (Official Wifeless.) RUGBY, October 9. The Bazilian Embassy in London,, in a. communication to the Press regarding the revolt, in Brazil, states that official information has been .received to the effect that'Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and all of the seventeen States loyal to the Government are quiet, ‘'T]ie Brazilian Government has issued a Note in which the real situation is fully explained. It. gives an assurance that the country can have entire confidence in the prompt and sure measures taken by the Government, along with the discipline and loyalty of the ’Federal forces, to dominate the movement. BRAZIL CIVIL WAR, BITTER STRUGGLE FEARED. , BUENOS AIRES, October IT The Brazilian Federal troops, operating from Sao Paulo, report having captured Ourofino, two hundred miles from Rio Grande, from the rebels, who suffered heavy casualties.

The Government announces that its forces have routed the rebels and hnve captured Bnrbneenn on the rail*, way leading to Bello Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Ceraes, which is in the hands of the revolutionists. i

Barbncena was n strategic point for the rebel stores and muniton.

Bello Horizonte was again bombed by the Federal troops to-day. The rebels, in their reports, claim a victory at- Santa Catherina, and also further advances on Sao Paulo.

Travellers arriving here describe the situation as critical, pointing out that there will be a hitter struggle unless Sao Paulo and Rio Grande landslide is in the rebels’ favour. U.S.A. CRUISER SENT. WASHINGTON. October 11. The new ten thousand ton cruiser “Pensacola,” lias been despatched to Brazil, via Gauntnnamo, to be in readiness to take off Americans, if they should be imperilled by the revolution. BRITISH WARSHIP SENT. PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), 0ct..11. The British warship Delhi left here on Friday night, under orders to pro. t eeed 'at- full sliced to; Pernambuco. It A was understood that the ship would \ stand by for the protection, and, if '•ftecessnrv, the evacuation of British find other foreign citizens. TROOP TRAIN WRECKED. (Received this day at D a ' ; VANCOUVER, (British Columbia), October 12. Buenos Aires unconfirmed report states on Sunday a Federal troop train, with a thousand men nboard was derailed between Saopaulo and Santos, crashing into a ravine. The cnsual- ** ties are unknown. i CALLED TO ARMS. RIO DE JANIERO', October 12.. ,

Dispatches on Saturday said the Federnl Government called to the colours navy reserves, discharged since 1921.