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Last week, the second revolution of the year broke out in Lisbon. No year-or very few-passes without at least one such ditsurbance. The revolt was unsuccessful. Following the modern movement in revolutions (see ECUADOR), few* shots were fired; little damage was done, there were few-casualties, but a lot of arrests and possibly much bad language...
Last week, there came revolution to Ecuador. Troops in Quito, the capital, and Guayaquil captured the civil and military authorities at both places, jailed them. General Francisco Gomez de la Torre was proclaimed Military Chief of Government. The people were given to understand that the coup had been planned to end maladministration. There was no bloodshed, little excitement...
...Ecuador. Ramos Pedrueza, Mexican Minister to Ecuador, made such violent Bolshevik speeches that the Government was obliged to request him to cease his tongue-wagging. Information concerning him was sought from Mexico City in a letter addressed to the newspaper Excelsior by the Chief of Police of Guayaquil. Excelsior answered that Señor Pedrueza is the most terrible Bolshevik in Latin-America...
SEDUCERS IN ECUADOR-V. Sackville-West-Doran ($1.50). With adroit indirection, the author acquaints you with the sad end, on the scaffold, of Arthur Lomax. The colored glasses he bought in Egypt so marvelously altered the aspect of life that he married Miss Whitaker, murdered his yachtsman host, Bellamy, and left Bellamy's money to Artivale, the scientist of the cruise-all with the loftiest of motives. In court, bereft of the illusive spectacles, normal Arthur Lomax could quite understand the jury's incredulity. His was the tragedy of the man who made believe and had his dream...
...heavy static at the equator after a fortnight of reported failure (TIME, Apr. 20), Explorer William Beebe, last week, employed his radio to tell the U. S. his oceanographic adventures in the South Pacific Ocean. Cruising south from Panama to study the chilly Humboldt Current off the coast of Ecuador (TIME, Apr. 13), thence west to the Galapagos Islands (on the Equator, longitude 92° west), those on board the Arcturus had beheld...