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AFTER ABORTIVE PUTSCH IN BOLIVIA ARREST OF A FORMER MINISTER. PRESIDENT FOR CO-OPERATION WITH U.S.A. LA PAZ (Bolivia), July 21. A former Finance Minister, Victor Paz Estenssoro. was arrested at Tarija, in the heart of the Bolivian oilfields, in connection with the abortive Nazi putsch which last night threw the country into a state of siege. The police also ■ arrested four, civilian members of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, led by Major Elias Belmonte. Bolivian military attache in Berlin, and a German, former manager of Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, named Schroth. Four newspapers, two of which are included in Washington’s black list, were suspended. The proclamation of the state of siege automatically dissolved the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, which the Government describes as a small party formed with the connivance of German residents of La Paz. The President, General Enrique Penaranda, who has taken personal control in cleaning up the situation, advocates full co-operation with the United States in defence of the. Western Hemisphere.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 5
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163QUICK CLEAR-UP Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 5
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