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Foiled, mob-leaders plotted an attack next day on a train scheduled to arrive salt-laden at Cuenca from Ecuador's chief port, Guayaquil. Having heaped large stones and timbers upon the railway track, they foolishly sought to make assurance doubly sure by cutting the telegraph wires. At Guayaquil, the authorities, warned by telegraph trouble that something was amiss, placed armed guards upon the salt train which easily scattered the attacking peasantry...
...Herbert S. Dickey of the Royal Geographic Society and his bride turned up last fortnight at Para, Brazil, after a busy honeymoon spent in crossing the Andes from Guayaquil, Ecuador; making cinema records of the art of curing human skulls among the savage, head-hunting Teveros...
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...
Died. Esther Concha de Tamayo, wife of Dr. Don Jose Luis Tamayo, President of Ecuador; at Guayaquil...