832.00 Revolutions/99: Telegram
The Consul General at São Paulo (Cameron) to the Secretary of State
[Received 12:05 p.m.]
Government column advancing from Ourinhos badly defeated several days ago. The Government now on defensive; whole Paraná front from Ribeira to Assis using trenches, barbed wire, machine-gun nests, artillery. Advance guard fighting near Itarare, Thursday. São Paulo–Paraná Railway rolling stock withdrawn and all bridges destroyed by the Government. Whole São Paulo–Rio Grande Railroad [Page 440] cooperating with revolutionists. Reliably reported German ex-Army officers with the revolutionary forces, latter apparently attempting turning movement westward, Government having rushed troops to Marilia, railhead of branch of the Paulista Railway.