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...sugar plantations around Trujillo. . . . On the outskirts of Lima, police arrested 30 men breaking into a private shooting club, not to practice but to steal weapons. . . . All this was considered as natural an adjunct as the gold braid and oratory with which seven-fingered President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro was inaugurated last week at Lima's Government Palace to be the 45th President of Peru...
...riot and civil disturbance, to gunfire and cobblestone-pitching. President Sanchez Cerro is no stranger. Week before President Sanchez Cerro took the oath of office a General Pedro Pablo Martinez blustered into town after a flying trip from Santiago, Chile. He said that a long time ago President Sanchez Cerro had insulted him. He had come for satisfaction. Acquaintances of the principals persuaded the truculent warrior to observe the statute of duelling limitations, forget his grievance. He was packed off to Chile on the next boat...
Meanwhile Peru has had a triple revolution. Picturesque, hard-swearing Lieut. Col. Luis Sanchez Cerro, who led the first armed revolt and was ousted by the second, became a presidential candidate after the third revolt. Peruvian voters chose by ballot between the Colonel and three other candidates, all civilians. While the vote was being counted gunmen in a speeding car riddled the residence of Candidate Sanchez Cerro with random bullets, killed nobody. Startled, but by no means unnerved, Colonel Sanchez Cerro received with a tight grin of satisfaction last week the news that he had been elected President of Peru...
...officers at the Alverca Airdrome joined the revolt and took off with a load of bombs. No fools were Commander America Sanchez and Lieut. Manoel Vazquez. Commander Sanchez joined the revolution, swooped back & forth over the roofs of Lisbon firing his machine gun. He suddenly decided that there was little future in the revolt, turned his plane's nose east and came down safely in Spain. Lieut. Vazquez went up with a crate of nearly 200 hand grenades and spent a busy hour tossing them over the side, trying to hit the Presidential Palace. When his crate was empty...
...Madrid, Marques de Tena, after blandly denying to reporters that he had received any "orders" from King Alfonso, ran against an immediate snag. White whiskered Senor Sanchez Guerra stubbornly refused to have truck or traffic with any Spanish Royalists who had defended or been members of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship...