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Show ; WILL FKrJLT BOLIVIA. PEOPLE OF ACRE DECLARE FOR INDEPLNDENCE. The Attempt of l;rall to I orc-e the People of .lore to Submit to liulivla Is fetronjjly oppoHi-d and War May Result. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says: The chiefs of the revolutionary government gov-ernment at Acre have requested the withdrawal of all the Brazilian forces, naval and military, affirming that free Brazilians will never become Holivian. The request, or protest, cuds thus: "Independence or death. Long live the free fctate of Acre." It is signed by twel ve chiefs. There is serious danger of complications complica-tions between the state government of Ainazonus and the general government at Rio Janeiro, owing to the fact that the people of the Amazon valley, as I well as the state government, are in favor of aiding the Brazilians of Acre, estimated at LMJjoo, against the Holivian government and the iDsign i licant Holivian Ho-livian population of Acre, estimated at fewer than 2,000. The people of the state of Para are bitterly opposed to the intervention of the central government iu favor of the lioliviau authorities in Acre, and the deputies of Para and Amazonas, headed by Dr. Innoceneio Sersodello, a former cabinet minister, will firmly oppose all interests by the Brazilian military forces. 1 Letters received from the city of Acre, formerly Puerto Alouza, say the independent state of Acre has sent diplomatic notes to the governments of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Prance, Spain, Switzerland Switzer-land and Portugal, requesting them to recognize the independence of the new state. The preliminary sessions of the new congress will begin in April, but already al-ready enough is linown to demonstrate the fact that never before in the history of Hrazil were such fraud and corruption corrup-tion practiced as in the recent elections. |
