18 JANUARY 1919, Page 3

There was an outbreak of the Bolshevik plague last week

in Buenos Aires, interrupting for the -moment the export trade in grain-and meat, which is of-vital importance to the Allied coun- tries. A general strike was declared, and for several days there was street fighting, in which Russian agitators took an active part. Last Saturday General Dellepiane, disregarding the weak President, whose policy is always to remain inactive, proclaimed a military dictatorship, and by Sunday had suppressed the Anarchist insurrection, with about a thousand casualties. The Uruguayan authorities, being forewarned, prevented a .similar rising in Montevideo.