SUDDEN REVOLT QUELLED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 May 1938, Page 7

SUDDEN REVOLT QUELLED

FASCIST OUTBREAK IN BRAZIL Palace Defended Single-handed by President NUMBER OF REBELS TAKEN PRISONER 1 By Telegraph—Press Association. —Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.40 a.m.) RIO DE JANIERO, May 11. Government forces quelled a Fascist revolt after three hours of fierce fighting in the streets, arresting scores. i An attempt to seize President Vargas was thwarted when he stood at a window firing a revolver at the rebels until military aid was rushed to him. Green-shirted members of the outlawed Integralists Party gathered quietly early in the morning at the Ministry of Marine, the President’s Palace and the dockyards. 1 The Government was warned a moment before the outbreak and r quickly prepared for a major emergency. ’ A party of the Palace Guard joined in the revolt, killing their commander and attempting to capture the Palace, but President Vargas, alone with his family, darted from window to window, holding the i rebels at bay until he was joined by a loyal officer and his son. Thereafter soldiers and police were sent to the scene in trucks armed with machineguns, quickly subduing the rebels, thirty of whom were arrested at the Palace. The main force of the rebels barricaded themselves in the Ministry : of Marine and were dislodged after repeated bayonet charges. The Naval Ministry was twice shelled and badly damaged. Several of the rebels were wounded, but none were killed. Prince Don Pedro Braganza, second son of the pretender to the throne, was wounded in the leg at the Palace, it is claimed, in attempting ’ ' to aid President Vargas. The police detained him pending investigation. , Leaders of the revolt imprisoned included Admiral Paul Tavares. , A policeman was critically wounded by a machine-gun bullet and others, it is feared, were wounded. i