COMMUNIST MENACE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 47, 26 January 1932, Page 7

COMMUNIST MENACE.

UPHEAVAL IN SALVADOR. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED. BALBOA (Canal Zone), Jan. 24. The Canadian destroyers Skeena and Vancouver are standing by the port of Aeajutla, on the coast of Salvador, to protect foreign lives and property in the Communist disturbance. A message from San Salvador states that martial law has been declared throughout Salvador to put down the Communist uprisings, in which more than four have been killed. The Communists have provoked disorders in several towns in the interior. The Mayor, the municipal secretary, the local army commandant, and a telegraph operator were killed at Colon. Communists attacked military barracks at several plaoes, the troops firing and killing or wounding an undetermined number. PLAN TO LOOT BANKS. WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. A State Department report indicates that the Communists planned to attack San Salvador and loot the British and American banks, but a dispatch from the British Charge d’Affaires this morning stated that up to that time the capital had not been attacked. REFUGEES ON DESTROYER. Received January 26, 9.5 a.m. OTTAWA, Jan. 25. Mr R. B. Bennett, the Prime Minister, stated to-day that the Canadian destroyer Skeena had on board a number of women refugees from the insurrection in San Salvador. i

Salvador, the smallest but by far the most thickly-populated of the Central American Republic, consists of a strip of territory stretching between Honduras' and the Pacific. The population consists mostly of the (Aztec) Indians arid mixed races.