Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-12-10 | Page 15 | President of Chile Escapes Death in Bomb Plot

Sr V AW f fv v- v 7 gg TJ t- t sr H W r T r V W m. m f i lq i 4 W ri r li W w W I v S i i f fC C resident of 0 Chile Chife nl l e Escapes Death ath in D tt Z f J I. I t 1 t. t 0 r L 1 Defect ri-i ri Thwart I A I i B Blow l U t Attempt f to to OW Up P fF Government 1 Train Tram 3 Th 1 l' l oS A K y to 1 i I E Fur t Arrested t d in Plot Censor IO Clamp l mp D Down n Ld Lid 1 tt 1 SANTIAGO DE XE CHILE D c. c 10 TAP AP-A AP An attempt against the lives live X resIdent Colonel Carlos CArloa Ibanez i i d members member ot of of his ils party was last Jut night by government agents who discovered and removed bomb sot set to blow up the tho presidential 4 train as it neared tho c cap Mal Ital from the south couth I Police and government detectives es who had been watching development n ei-n anarchist an pJ plot t against the president and nd his government for tor days days- saw the conspirators place ten kilos kIlo of ot under tho the railroad bridge 8 across the Rio Maipo Malpa 30 kilometers rs southwest of ot San Santiago GO and d then dismantled tho charge be before before before be- be fore the tho presidents president's train passed over st It w At least tour four per persons ons bavo havo been arrested Although their names were not Bot learned it was said that ono one I Is Isa a general In tho the Chilean army and andone andone one ene a a medical sty dent Two others md ld to b be ba generals are implicated in fn the th the affair which Is the first serious seri serl- cus one ous attempt against the government Inc inco tho the abortive revolution re of September 21 Police claimed that there thee o W was enough explosive in the chargo charge to Kill more moro than per per- sons ions STREETS CLEARED Tho The Tho attempt empt against tho the a ent life nee wa was mUI not disclosed until Just juet after the special train tram had arrived at the central station from Osorno where the president inaugurated luau luau- a livestock show Six units unit or of army cavalry cleared tho the station stanon and streets for tor two blo blocks ks all aU aro around nd I Immediately a a. censorship was clamped damped on outgoing outgoing- press Cables ca cables ca- ca bles bIlls and communications the with world were held up until after midnight At that time the tho government I Is- Is I an official bulletin which said I Ith th that t police for tor several days had b be ri n watching comm elements ele elc- do- do ments and others other suspected ed of plotting plotting plot plot- plot plot-I ting ting- against the tho government go and by car careful ful investigation had been beet I a able le to to apprehend the the- dynamiters Just a as they completed an an elaborate ele t ric bomb with electric wires Ires for These wires s were trun to tog a point about gOO BoO 00 meters from the bridge the plotters plan nl ning to bide the there thero until tho the train began to cross eross the bridge when tho they were to set et et off oU the th blast CARRIED OFFICIALS LS In Ta addition to the the ho president tho the train carried members of the cabinet cabi net list congressmen and newspaper newspaper- newspaper newspaper- me men cn After discovery very of the bomb the presidential party mado made m merr merry rry In his hili special coach members of or the party toasting Colonel Ibanez and I calling upon discontented elements clements i to coo cooperate rat for the stability a and d progress ogress of ortho tho nation I Tho government statement did tot not say what bad had been done dono with those arrested merely stating elating that I they would they would bo be dealt with a according I Co law