"A band of Green Shirts and civilians, wearing uniforms of police and marine officers," an official communique said, "attempted to seize the Palace buildings, including the Ministry of Marine and Guanabara Palace. The rebels seized the Mini: try of Marine, which Army force retook Part of the garrison in the Presidential Palace joined in the revolt President Vargas, revolver in hand, personally commanded the defenders, who only numbered twenty against the hundreds of rebels until reinforcements arrived. The Minister of War was wounded at the President's side.
It was during a bayonet charge by Marines, which drove the rebels cut of the Ministry of Marine, that "Hassolman, the alleged leader of the rebellion, was mortally wounded.—Reuter.
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