PRESIDENT IN FLIGHT
AFTER ELEVEN YEARS' RULO
BLOODSHED IN H!l£
United Press Association-—By El«ctri« teim graph—Copyright. (Received 26th August, 1 p.nu.)] j LIMA (Peru), 25th August. ■} President Auguslo Leguia, who ' has ruled Peru under virtual dio» ', tatorship for eleven years, has resigned and fled towards Panama'l aboard a cruiser.
; A military insurrection started a week ago in Southern Peru and ' spread like wildfire under the the •leadership of Colonel Sanchez Guerro. ;
Disorders broke out in the capi- : tal after the president's resignation^ 'l was announced. Four citizens wer* killed.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 49, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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