Evening star., 1945-09-27
Opposition Leaders
Jailed by Argentina
In State Of Siege
Civilians Lose Rights,
But Farrell Reiterutes
Promise on Elections
r? the Associated Press.

BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 81
Leaders of every shade of oppo-
sition to Argentina's military
government were in jail today
while Argentines from the At
lantic to the Andes waited to see
what further steps would be
taken to carry out a state of siege
imposed yesterday.
Squads of Federal police with
long lists of wanted persons sys-
tematically covered this capital OF
2,500,000 as the dragnet frightened
here and elsewhere over the country
The decree. which deprives Ar
gentines of their civil rights, came
unexpectedly as the climax to a
period of mounting opposition to
the military regime of President
Edelmiro Farrell and Col. Juan
Peron, Vice President and strong
man of Argentina. 1t followed by
"a hours the suppression of an up
rising by the military garrison at
Cordoba
1941 Action Recalled.
Similar action suspending con-
stitutional guarantees of freedom
of speech, press and assembly was
taken in 1941, but the siege was
lifted last July, when President Far
rell promised to call general
election before the end of the year
President Farrell told the nation
last night that reimposition of the
decree should be regarded as a
transitory measure brought about
by IAN unrestrained campaign ot
disorder and commotion' which hao
excited the nation. He said in 6
radio address that the state of siege
would be lifted when the directive
groups of the nation have showr
! they know how to make full use o1
/ liberty and reiterated that the
elections would be held as promised
/ 1t is now up to Hortensio Quijano
Minister of the Interior, to give in
structions for implementation of the
decree, which will in turn reveal
how severely the government in
tends to invoke its emergency pow
erS.
There has been no interference
with incoming or outgoing news as
yet, but the government has issuec
requests" to newspapers to cease
criticism of its actions.
Newspaper Executives Held.
Arrests reached into the ranks OF
newspapermen. Ernesto Carreras
business manager of Critica. wa:
arrested, as was Alberto Desimone
assistant publisher of Noticia:
Graficas, whose publisher, Jose Au.
gusti, is now touring the Unitee
States.
Prominent figures seized included
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, winner o
the 1886 Nobel Prize for his contri
buttons to peace while Foreign Min
ister; Eustaquio Mendez Delfino
president Of the Buenos Aires Stool
and Commodity Exchange; Lui
Colombo, president of the Argentin
Industrial Union; Rodolfo Moreno
ranking leader of the Conservativ
party and former Ambassador to ia
pan; Octavio Amadeo, the nation
leading historian; Nerio Rojas, lead
er Of Union Civica Radical, Argen
tina's majority political party; Jos
Maria Cantilo, former Foreign Min
lister and organizer of the Septembe
10 march ior liberty and constitu
ton"
Other prominent persons fled t
: foreign Embassies for refuge.
: Fifty-one high-ranking retire
! naval officers who asked for resto
t ration of the constitution and FIRE
, elections in a manifesto on Sunda
| were arrested, but were released lat
] last night.
Meanwhile, in the historic city {
| Cordoba, four lawyers institute
e habeus corpus proceedings in beha
e of Gen. Arturo Rawson, whose al
j rest followed a revolt at the Cordob
garrison on Monday.