OUTBREAK IN PERU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 11

OUTBREAK IN PERU.

FOREIGNERS KILLED.

MILITARY LAW IN LIMA. WOMEN MOVED TO SAFETY. 0 GENERAL REVOLT FEARED. By Telegraph—Picas Association— Copyright. NEW YORK. Nov. 13. A message from Lima states that refugees gave picturesquo accounts of their experiences in tho Cerro de Pasco region. It is now known that 145 foreigners are still within tho danger zone.

The miners aro reported to have been led in their attacks by " a white Peruvian woman named Grey," who shouted for them to " kill the Yankees and drink their blood."

Tho refugees arrived at Lima on a train driven by a British miner named Knub.•sCll, who assumed control and brought the train through with great difficulty, owing to his being unfamiliar with engine driving. Military law has been invoked in Lima and other cities in Peru. Several Americans were fatally assaulted by the striking miners in the neighbourhood of Cerro de Pasco mines. The United States has large copper and gold mining interests in this district, which is 15,000 ft. above the sea level. British and American women and children are being moved out of the mining area. Evidence of revolt is visible at various points of tho interior. Foreigners reaching hero aro considerably worried over tho fate of others left behind along the disorganised small railways which cannot bo depended upon at their best. Authorities assert that the troubles are largely due to Communistic influence among tho native miners or Serranos, who aro invariably susceptible to tho influences of political labour agitators. These have recently been inciting trouble owing to tho closure of mines following the drop of metal prices. A general strike, which was threatened throughout Peru, appears closer

LO-day, but the outcome of tho whole :rouble will largely depend on whether

toreign men were among tho number of women who succeeded in escaping the excited natives. Tho latter, as descendants of the conquered Inca races, continue to harbour hatred against all foreigners.