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...once he was on dry land at Callao, port of Lima, valiant Lieut.-Colonel Jimenez marched straight to the capital, overthrew the Government, conferred by wire with leaders of the revolutionary Government at Arequipa in the South...
When 60 armed civilians and soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Lima it was only a short day's work for Col. Cerro's troops to scatter them with machine gun fire, chase them eight miles down to the Port of Callao (where T. R. H. were saluted fortnight ago) and end the No. 1 revolution there, after some 60 persons had been slain (one of them Reginald A. Skidmore of the Grace Line, killed by a stray bullet while playing billiards at the Strangers' Club...
Even incognito as the "Earl of Chester." Edward of Wales is entitled, as is any member of the British Royal family, anywhere, anytime, to a 21-gun salute. Last week as he and Prince George sailed into Callao (Port of Lima) they got their salute. Two years ago hospitable Peruvians even fired 21 guns for Herbert Hoover, although, as President-elect, he was entitled to no salute whatever...
...litmus was red indeed. The Almirante Gran's officers stopped saluting and arrested little Leguia. Back in Callao harbor, a U. S. physician, Dr. McCormack, visited the sick man three times, announced that contrary to current rumor the patient was "neither dead nor dying." The Junta's President Sanchez Cerro thundered that "Tyrant" Leguia "must be made to account for his acts," ordered Augusto Leguia and son Juan imprisoned in the island fortress of San Lorenzo, bastille of Peru's political prisoners. Peruvians thrilled at a typically Latin touch: jailer-to-be of ex-President Leguia, commander of the guard...
...hand, a delegation of Callao dockworkers called on Colonel Cerro at his new official residence, the 16th Century Palace of that superb ruffian Pizzarro, conqueror of Peru...