Evening star., 1943-12-21

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panied by his brother and the
Chilean Military Attache to
Bolivia.
BY the Associated Press
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. al
Troops guarded Bolivia's tin ore
mines today as a nationalist
junta which yesterday over
threw the government of Gen
Enrique Penaranda announced
that it was firmly entrenched
and discounted rumors that a
counterrevolution had begun.
The troops were stationed at the
mines, producing large portion OF
the tin ore used in the manufacture
of United States and British arms
in one of the fret acts of the new
government, which pledged, how
ever, to live up to Bolivia s commit
ments to the United Nations.
Victor Paz Estenssoro, leader OF
the coup and new finance minister
told an interviewer that the At
lantic Charter and other obligations
of Bolivia will be respected and
maintained" and the new govern
ment in no case will alter the in
ternational situation at the side OF
the United Nations"
Similar sentiments were expressed
by Maj Alberto Villaroel, the new
President.
War on Axis Affirmed.
An executive degree of last April
declaring war on the Axis, was af-
firmed by the Legislature on De-
cember 4.
dispatches from Santiago,
Chile, noted that the Nationalist
Revolutionary Movement CNRM),
from which most of the new
leaders are drawn, has long cam
paigned against control of the
mining industry by three major
producing companies. These ad-
vices said the coup could hardly
fail to affect the production of tin.
ut was announced in Wash
ington that. pending direct word
from La Paz, negotiations be-
tween the Bolivian government
and the United States Metal Re-
serve Co., a Government financed
organization, for new five-year
tin contract were suspended)
Jose Tamayo, the new foreign
minister, said last night he hao
handed to the dean of the foreign
diplomatic corps in La Paz an officia
document announcing the estab-
lishment of new government anc
affirming its intention to continue 8
policy of inter- American collabora.
ton.
Enrique Lozada, now in Washing
ton, has been named confidential
agent to the United States for the
new government, it also was an.
nounced, and it was understood here
that he may succeed Fernando
Guachalla as Bolivian Ambassador
in Washington.
(Senor Lozada is political
adviser to Nelson Rockefeller.
co-ordinator of inter- American
affairs. He formerly was first
secretary of the Bolivian Lega-
ton here)
Officials Take Refuge in Embassies.
In the only reports which the new
government has released regarding
the fate of former officials it was
said that former Foreign Ministe,
Carlos Salinas had taken refuge in
the Chilean Embassy and forme,
Minister of Agriculture Julio Ces-
pedez Anez was at the Paraguayar
Embassy.
Two mining magnates, Carlos
Victor Armayo and Mauricio Hochs.
child, first took refuge in the Bra
lillian and Chilean Embassies, it was
reported, but later went to thei,
homes. The police had no orders
to arrest them.
Meanwhile passengers arriy-
ing at Lima, Peru, by air from
La Paz, described the coup as
bloody and added that army
planes had flown from Santa
Cruz, Bolivia, to La Paz to aid the
revolution.
CThe travellers said groups
which remained loyal to Pena-
randa in two towns had virtually
been annihilated by artillery fire
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