Word: leguia
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When the Almirante Grau was a few miles at sea a wireless message was received that the revolution had failed, Leguia was once more President. Promptly the cruiser broke out the President's flag, fired a 21-gun salute. Officers came to salute again their Commander in Chief. Little Leguia was in no condition to receive them. The bitterness of defeat had affected his kidneys, driven him to bed with an acute attack of uremic poisoning...
Then came another message. General Ponce was deposed as leader of the Junta. New ruler of Peru was the revolution's starter, vigorous Colonel Sanchez Cerro. Further the Junta warned the Almirante Grau that if the cruiser did not immediately put about, return Augusto Leguia to Peru to await proper punishment, the cruiser would be considered an enemy vessel, its crew subject to court martial...
...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...
Hero Cerro. Once in -jail, Augusto Leguia was quickly forgotten by the Peruvian man-in-the-street. Hero of the week, cheered to the echo on his every appearance was the President of the Junta, Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro, in many ways an even more spectacular figure than deposed Dictator Leguia. If five-foot-three Dictator Leguia is a bantam, pugnacious Colonel Cerro, five-foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against...
Pounding a table with his clawlike left hand he thundered denunciations against "Tyrant" and "Traitor" Leguia, accused him of selling the country's petroleum reserves to foreign capitalists, raising the national debt from 80 to 600 million soles (i sole?4Oj/). Bluntly he referred to the President's Civil Guards as "Jackals" and "Terroristic Instruments...