The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-20
Three High Government Aides Shot 
Students Fight Army and Police
 Durinq Outbreak

Africa, Chile, July 20 = UP)-Border reports from La Paz today said 100 per- sons were killed and l5O wounded in the Bolivian capi- tol during a revolutionary outbreak climaxed by ths wounding of three high of- ficials in an attempt to as- sassinate President Gualberto Villarroel.
 Bloody rioting broke out Tuesday in La Paz, according to advices from the capitol. The government organ La Cumbre said the "subversive movement' was master minded from Santiago and Buenos Aires, evidently by Bo- livian exiles in those capitols. Villarroel and his government ap- peared to have the situation In hand to a greater or lesser extent. The president had the support Of the army and police, fragmentary reports seeping over the frontier said.
 Decides on Shakeup
 Unofficial accounts said VIlar- roel, prompted by the wholesale bloodshed and his own narrow escape from hail of bullets which splattered a platform on which he was speaking, had decided to shake up the government. The new re- gime will be composed entirely Of army men, the reports said, indicat- ing the possibility of virtual mili- tary coup.
 Villarroel was speaking to crowd which gathered around the government palace when the shoot- ing occurred. The crowd apparent- ly had gathered before the palace to protest against government policy which would prompt the vio- fence and terrorism.
 Suddenly rattle of gunfre came from the crowd, the bullets showering the balcony platform where the president stood. Wound- ed were Col. Julio Pinto, acting
 foreign minister and one of the , strong men" Villarroel had gath- , cred around him; Gen. Francisco Barrero, army chief Of staff; and Lt.-Col Luis Arce Pacheco. presi-
 dential aide. All were on the bal- cony with the president.
 A policeman was killed outright.
 Police fired tear gas bombs into the
 crowd and rifle volleys into the air, and the incident was over.
 Minister Escapes
 Finance Minister Victor Paz Es-
 tensoro apparently was marked for assassination. Three men broke in-
 to his home and injured man . whom they apparently nlistook for
 him.
 One report from the capital said
 50 persons were killed and many wounded in pitched battles in the streets of La Paz Thursday. A trav- eler from the capital said he counted the bodies of 15 students, among them one woman, in the Paseo
 Prado, as well as eight bodies of civilians in front of the Paris Hotel. La Paz police announced they had seized a great quantity" of arms with markings similar to those used
 in neighboring countries. Army forces and police were re- ported patroling the streets in arm- ored cars. The family of Villarroel went to Buenos Aires after the out | break.
 !, Witnesses Violence s Pedro Gutierrez Pizarro, Chilean school principal here. witnessed ] part of the violence in La Paz. He ] was there Thursday morning, and
 saw long column of teachers and
 students marching toward the ra. < tional palace. i At the head of the march," he ] said, they carried the body of a , student tragically killed earlier in the day. Considering the hail of
 machine-gun and rifle bullets that . greeted them as boarded the train, : I suppose there must have been Q many killed"
 $ The Violence was reported to have
 started at noon Tuesday when stu- s dents hiSsed and stoned troops marching in the capital. They broke Il into the Condor radio station, the e reports said, and suffered numerous V casualties when they were driven V out.
 Q Travellers said that 2 A. M. We'd nesday, at the University of San
 Andres of La Paz, police attacked
 the students and afterward biz
 splashes of blood were seen in froni
 of the building.
 On Thursday, the accounts said