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...ousted German army builder General Hans Kundt (TIME, July 7), sped under escort provided by German diplomacy through pointing, jeering crowds in the streets of La Paz. Leaving behind them the General, with cries for his head still ringing in their ears, they fled by motor to the Peruvian border and safety. The General too escaped and is now said to be making for Hamburg. Last week Frau Gertrude Kundt and Fraülein Renate arrived in Manhattan. Said they: ''It [Bolivia] is a terrible place. One day it is 'Viva General Kundt.' The next...
...tangled jungles of the Peruvian (upper) Amazon emerged last week a botanical expedition of the Field Museum, Chicago. Some items of medical interest forwarded by Llewelyn Williams, leader of the party...
...Club. Each exploration produced a book. The 1,000-mi. jungle journey along the route of Bolivar became Journal of an Expedition Across Venezuela and Colombia (1909). His exploration of the old Spanish trade route from Buenos Aires to Lima, resulted in Across South America (1911). He led a Peruvian expedition which discovered the last Inca capital, climbed Mt. Corpuna (21,703 ft.) in the Andes. Out of these excursions came Vitcos, the Last Inca Capital (1912), In the Wonderland of Peru (1913), Incaland...
...hour and 45 minutes later the new Peruvian municipal government was installed in Tacna City, at exactly 4 p. m. The local Peruvian Superior Court was proclaimed to be functioning at 5 p. m. Trucks and vans piled high with Chilean furniture rumbled out all afternoon from Peruvian Tacna City, sped to the still Chilean seaport of Arica City, 39 miles distant and 1,800 feet below...
When Mrs. Miles Poindexter, wife of the onetime (1923-28) U. S. Ambassador to Peru, returned to Washington from Lima she brought with her one Cornelius, capable Peruvian servant. She was pleased with Cornelius, but Cornelius was not pleased with his salary. Consulting Alfredo Gonzalez-Prada. Charge d'Affaires and First Counselor of the Peruvian Embassy, he learned that in the U. S. no servants are "indentured," that all can do as they please. He also learned that Senor Gonzalez-Prada wanted a servant. Thereupon Cornelius left the Poindexter household, went to the Prada household. Vexed, used...