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...Gulf of Guayaquil commences geographically at Cabo Blanco, on the Peruvian coast, so there is nothing unusual in that "the Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes...
...equally false that Peruvian troops "burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac." . The Peruvian Army behaved with such discipline and sense of honor that the President of the Republic, in a speech he made on the 16th of August, has been able...
...slanderous to charge that Peru "had been improving the truce." The truth is that Peru accepted the armistice under the double condition that guarantees be offered to Peruvian residents of Ecuador, and that a decree of the Quito Government referring to mobilization be revoked. This last condition was only fulfilled on the 31st of July at twelve noon, and at 6 p.m. of the same day the Peruvian troops ceased firing...
This map shows where the Western Hemisphere's only war has been going on during the past fortnight-in defiance of an armistice agreement and unknown to the rest of the world. The Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes. Just twelve Peruvian parachutists took Machala and seven took Puerto Bolivar. They kept banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses...
...Peru announced that German diplomatic pouches would no longer be exempt from customs examination, since Nazi officials had used them "for purposes other than the transport of official correspondence." One of the other purposes had been to send a radio transmitter to the German Legation in Lima. When Peruvian customs officials refused to pass the transmitter unopened it was sent back to Argentina. There it was seized, with other German diplomatic correspondence, by the eager sleuthhounds of the Argentine "Comité Dies." Last week, after much diplomatic fussing, the Germans got the transmitter and most of their documents back...