URUGUAY'S REVOLUTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 231, 4 February 1911, Page 10

URUGUAY'S REVOLUTION

A DESULTORY AFFAIR. An insurrection has been proceeding in desultory fashion in Uruguay for many month's past, in connection with the approaching presidential election. Many of the inhabitants of the Republic seem unable to conceive a contest confined to the use of ballot-papers, and the position of affairs in the. interior during November was reported to be serious. Senor Batlle had been announced a.s a. candidate for the office of President, and his political opponents had taken up arms and hao come into conflict with the dovernmenl troops which had been despatched to the disturbed districts by 'President Williman. "Various rumors are afloat concerning the movements of Senor Batlle," wrote a Monte Video correspondent. "Some say that he has embarked for Europe secretly and will reappear here suddenly to assume control of his party, This is connected with wild, but not impossible talcs of a plot to place him in the presidency without I he usual election, and then declare a dictatorship. Many local newspapers in the interior have suspended publication until pence and the liberty of the Press are restored. In jome ca>cs (his attitude has been imposed upon them by the military authorities, or by all their stall' and type-setters disappearing to embrace (or to avoid) military service." The actual fighting in October and November seems to have been of no great importance. Here and there an estancia was raided, and brushes between the troops and small bodies of malcontents resulted in the loss of a few lives. Rutin the meantime the people were clieeri fully ceasing to follow their usual avoen- | tions. Crops were being neglected, herds were being destroyed by rival foraging parties, and the machinery of Government had ceased to operate. Uruguay's perpetual state of turmoil will probably continue until one of its powerful neighbor* takes the country in hand.