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ABORTIVE REVOLT BY

BRAZILIAN FASCISTS

Rio de Janeiro, To-day. Casualties in yesterday's abortive Fascist revolt in Brazil are now stated to be 9 killed and 20 wounded.

...

Five hundred were arrested, including a number of army and navy officers who led the Sao Paulo revolt in 1932.

Considerable quantities of arms and munitions are alleged to have been seized by the police in the house of the Green Shirt leader, Salgado. Prince Joao Braganza, member

of the former Royal House of Bra-

BAYONET CHARGE ·

zil, was wounded in the fighting.: A bayonet charge by

marines

but his condition is not serious. drove the rebels out of the Minis- The leader of the Fascists, a na-try of War. The fighting lasted val officer, was killed, and the War three hours-Reuter.

Minister slightly wounded, during

the attack on the presidential pa lace.

SPEEDY TRIAL

All the leaders of the rèvolt are

to be tried within twenty-four

INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON

hours by the tribunal of national AUSTRIA REFUGEES

safety.

President Vargas yesterday per- sonally directed the defence of the presidential palace, where part of the garrison joined in the revolt.

The President, revolver in hand, commanded the defen- ders who numbered only 20, against 100 rebels until rein- forcements arrived.

Washington, To-day.

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The State Department has nounced that representatives thirty countries will meet at Evians, in France, on July 6 and will form an inter-governmental committee to study the question of repatriation of Australian and German political refugees.-Reuter.

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ITALO-FRENCH DISCUSSIONS TO RESUME

Paris, To-day. L'intransigeant's Geneva corres- pondent reports that the French] 'Charge d'Affaires in Rome inform- ed the French Foreign Minister. M.. Bonnet, by telephone yesterday that he would be received by the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, at five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon for a resumption of the parleys interrupted on May 3.

The Charge d'Affaires, according to the l'Intransigeant, moreover an-| nounced that a preliminary agree- ment between France and Italy may be concluded in the first half of the next week.

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The paper believes that either France's present Ambassador Berlin, M. Francois Poncet, or the French Ambassador in Warsaw, M Leon Noel, will be appointed Am- bassador to Italy immediately after the conclusion of a preliminary agreement.

According to the paper, M. Fran- cois: Poncet is the more likely can- didate, however, to be chosen. Trans-Ocean

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