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Because three fingers of his left hand have been shot off, that hand is often clenched Napoleon-like behind the back of Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro, hard-featured, short-statured leader of the Peruvian revolution which made...
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...
...started at Arequipa in southern Peru, where the President got his own revolutionary start. While loyal troops moved against the rebels, airplanes rained down on Arequipa copies of Lima newspapers announcing that Arequipa was "alone in her revolt," would soon again be in the grasp of Seven-fingered Col. Cerro...
...host of Their Royal Highnesses last week was the No. 1 revolutionist, Lieut. Colonel Luis M. Sanchez Cerro. It is said that he incited his men to revolt by telling them the new government would pay them better than the old. Today he is Provisional President...
Bolivia: Announced a legal holiday with a two-minute period of silence. Hundreds of students and public authorities scrambled up Cerro Rico, the peak from which Bolivar first saw the country that was to bear his name...