Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-15
BRAZIL FEDERALS
SLOWLY CLOSE IN
!. ON REBEL FORCES


Brazilian federal troors tonight were
throwing an iron ring around revo-
lutionary soldiers who have held the
great interior city of Sac Paulo for
more than a week and deposed tenn
porarily the state government head
ed by Carlos De Campos.
The famous mountain highway
between Sac Paulo and Santos, its
seaport, has been cleared of rebels
and federal reinrorcements are pro-
ceeding along the road to the great
interior plateau on which the ia
nous coffee capital is situated.
Artillery of the government forces
continues to pound away at the
rebel strongholds in the great Luz
military barracks, near the center
of Sac Paulo city, and the Santa
Ana barracks, which overlooks the
fashionable avenida Paulista. Sac
Paulo's show street, along which
are situated the homes of many of
Its, coffee millionaires and many
Americans who have made fortunes
in Brazil
With the situation apparently
well in hand, and the rebel move
ment confined to Sac Paulo city, the
FEDERAL forces are proceeding slowly,
preferring TO force surrender of the
rebels rather than make another at
tempt to take their positions bv
storm-an action which, it is feared
would cause an artillery battle that
would ruin scores of big buildings
within range of the rebel cannon.
Rebel Position Hopeless
Reports in Rio de Janeiro tonight
indicated that the rebel position has
become wpll-niph hOpaIncc
The government, according to the
official formal do Commerce., is so
confident of victory that it refused
rebel request for an armistice de-
handing unconditional surrender.
There is report that Major
Bartholdo klinger, said to be the
rebel chief of staff, has been cap
tured.
With a federal victory considered
certain, news of tn severe fighting
which ragged in Sac Paulo streets
and along the Santos-Sao Paulo
highway is gradually leaking
through the strict military censor
ship which was clamped down as
soon as martial law was declared
by the government soon after the
rebel movement started last week.
1t is apparent that hundreds have
been killed, including many civilians
In the poorer sections of Sac Paulo
City, around the Luz barracks.
The government today gave out
two official communicates bearing
on the situation, in which it revealed
that all units of/the army, infantry
cavalry, airplanes and tanks have
been brought into action against the
rebels.
IN 4,,0
progress started yesterday the first
communique says. During the early
morning of the 18th our artillery
bombarded the rebel positions for
long time
AT $50 a. m. our attacking forces
divided to attain their aims, being
entirely successful and capturing q
machine guns in the action"
Accounts Exaggerated
The second communique, which
was telegraphed to all embassies IN
foreign capitals, deplores exagger-
ated accounts of the rebellion which
have been telegraphed from Buenos
Aires on the strength of garbled
reports reaching the Argentine cap
ital by telephone from southern
Brazil
"The movement in Sac Pau1o,"
this communique says, lis nothing
more than a mutiny which was pro-
voked by part of the states military
police and joined in by part of the
federal garrison in Sac Paulo City.
This mutiny, because of the en-
ergetic measures taken by the fed
eral and state governments, remains
confined strictly to the city of Sac
Paulo and has not spread to the in
terror of the state or other parts of
the country"
Federal forces penetrated to the
center Of the city today, the COM
munique says, but does not explain
whether positions there were main.
tanned.
The federal forces are mot pre-
cipitating surrender or arrest of the
rebels, since it is desired to avoid
unnecessary damage to the city"
Federal cavalry this afternoon
took many prisoners.
Regular passenger service between
Rio and Mogy Das Cruces (40 kilo-
meters from the scene of military
operations) will be resumed on the
Central DO Brasil railway tomorrow.
Central DO Brasil is the principal
line between Rio and Sac Paulo.
Travellers reaching ItlO ana San
tos report seeing scores of dead and
wounded in the streets. 1t also is
known that the federal forces, con-
sisting largely of marine units, suf-
fered heavy losses in fighting their
way to the long forest-covered noun
sfain slopes along the Santos,Sao
FPaulo highway.
Causes of the rebellion still are
obscure, owing to the censorship. 1t
now appears, however, that the out
break was the result of political am
billions of a handful OF military lead
ers of the Sac Paulo state army,
who. induced their men to join them
in the plot.
Another story is that jealousy be-
tween rival military leaders was
partly responsible for the outbreak.
General Abrilio de Naronha, the
Sac Paulo military commander, was
captured by the rebels the night
of July S, it is reported. He was
succeeded by General Candida Mari
ano Pamplona.