REVOLT IN PANAMA
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT FORMED TEN PEOPLE KILLED (United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright) PANAMA, 2nd January. Ten persons were killed and a score wounded in the fighting about the palace and the police station when a sudden revolt overthrew the Government of President Arosemena and the capital passed into the hands of a revolutionary junta headed by Signor Ilarmadio A rias.
President Arosemena resigned, and the Supreme Court appointed President .Arias, of the Bar Association, head of a provisional Government as “Secretary of the Government and Justice in Charge of the Government.”
A manifesto signed by representative citizens was issued as a pledge that the revolutionaries would respect all international obligations. Youthful revolutionists rose against the Government at three in the morning, captured the President, and proclaimed a provisional regime. With Arosemena in rebel hands as the Presidential Palace fell the opening of hostilities was centred around the Central Police station as well as the palace. Loyal Federal police met the insurrectionists with machine-gun fire, but were unable to prevail against them. Hartwell Ayers, a United States newspaperman, was shot in the abdomen by a stray bullet, and is not expected to live.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 January 1931, Page 5
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