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Chilean cruiser, O'Higgins, and the Peruvian transports Ucayali and Mantaro. The stevedores of the town have boycotted the Peruvian ships. Aboard one of them the Peruvian plebiscite commissioners have been publishing a "newspaper" favoring their side of the question. In the town, the Chilean newspaper, El Pacifico, published a list of all families whom the Peruvian commission had called Up0n-by way of intimidation, it was asserted...
Trouble finally broke out. Peruvians selling the Peruvian papers were attacked by Chileans. They fled up the street and took refuge in General Pershing's vestibule. In the presence of the General's aides Chileans actually stoned the Peruvian newsboys-with potatoes...
General Pershing rushed to the rescue. He went straight to the house of the head of the Chilean plebiscite commission and demanded protection for the Peruvian newsboys from potatoes. It was promised. But more clashes occurred. The general is apparently in for excitement...
...Freyre appeared to be somewhat uncomfortable. Despite the declared good intentions of General Pershing and Señor Edwards, he insisted, which seemed unnecessary, on a fair poll, "the establishment of an atmosphere of security among all Peruvian voters so that they will have a sense of utter confidence in exemption from all restraint...
...Robert Cushman Murphy, of the American Museum of Natural History, returned lately from studying ocean currents off the Peruvian and Ecua- dorian coasts. Last week, he told this story...