Evening star., 1935-11-27
Government Appears to Be
Winning Fight Against
"Red Uprising'-Hangars
Are Recaptured.
FASCIST CHIEF OFFERS
AID TO PRESIDENT
Aerial Squadron and Two Navy
Cruisers Sent North to Rein.
force Loyal Factions in Final
Drive on Insurgents-Leaders
Imprisoned.

BACkGROUND-
Established after orerthroU OF
monarchy in 1889, Brazilian Re.
public has surUived seDerdI at
tempts at revolution. Composed OF
20 states, a federal district and one
territory, the republic functions
under a constitute. {; modelled after
that of the United States. DrdtDn
in 1891, this document tpdS amended
in 1926 to giUe central government
increased authority oUer state dt-
fairs. Present disturbance has be-
ginning in application of this Gu-
thority, break between President
Getulio Vargas and Gen. Jose An
tonic Flores Ddcunhd, head OF
State OF Rio Gr1nde do Sui.
(Copyright, 1885, by the Associated PreSs.l
RIO DE JANEIRO, November 27.-
Loyal troops battled rebel soldiers in
Brazil's capital today in a desperate
effort to suppress what the govern
ment called a Communist uprising.
Rebel forces we're dislodged from
Natal, which they had captured last
Saturday, and the government ap-
peared to be winning its fight through
out the northeast, where the rebellion
broke out.
One rebel group in the Federal dis
trict surrendered under an aerial
bombing. Loyal aviators destroyed
the hangers in the aviation school
which a rebel group captured early
this morning.
Enlisted men of the 3rd Infantry
Regiment suddenly rebelled and
gained control of their barracks.
Loyal artillery shelled the establish-
ment while loyal infantry detach.
ments moved on the barracks with
fixed bayonets in an effort to force
the rebels surrender.
President Getulio Vargas personals
supervised the Loyalist action in Rio
de Janeiro.
He received an offer by Ponni1
Salgado, the Brazilian Fascist leader
of his green-shirted Fascist force
which he claimed numbered 100 ,OOd
men ito combat the Communist
menace" on the side of the govern.
ment.
Military Seizes Cars.
Public automobiles and buses were
Communicated by the Federal troops
throughout the city to strike bach
at the rebels. In the early hours Of
the day, when laborers were going td
work, the city was virtually without
transportation except for the Military
A group of Sergeants and private,
Of Battalion /, stationed at villa
Militar, in suburban Rio de Janeiro
attacked the aviation school earlS
in the day. They surrendered, how.
ever, six hours later. in the face Of
an overwhelming attack by local
troops.
President Getulio Vargas observed
the action personally. He accompanied
the troops. after the surrender of the
rebels at the Aviation School, to Prais
Vermelha. the quarters of the Sd In.
fantry Regiment, in the shadow of the
Sugar Loaf Mountain.
The barracks of the Sd Regiment
adjoin an insane asylum there. varga.
entered the asylum and looked dowH
through the barred windows at thu
rebels below.
Fight Within Barracks.
The rebellion at Praia Vermelh,
broke before dawn when Capt. Agildl
Barata, who was prisoner in the bar,
racks, induced one battalion of the Sd
Infantry to rise. Part of the regiment
remained loyal, however, and fight
Immediately broke out within the bar,
racks.
Other loyal troops were rushed from
other barracks under the command oi
Gen. Eurico Gaspar Dutra and com.
menced a cautious advance on thu
barracks after the rebels refused tG
come out and surrender.
Capt. Barata sent out pleas on thI