DISCONTENT IN PERU
RISING NIPPED IN THE BUD. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, November 18. Reports from Peru indicate that President Senor Leguia has nipped a prospective revolt in the bud, though despatches from Lima are conflicting. The discontent has been smouldering since July, when Senor Augusto Castro, a well-known editor, died aboard a battleship, where the President had imprisoned him. Castro’s widow accused President Leguia of ordering his assassination. It appears that the plotters stole the President’s notepaper and forged military orders calling upon the troops to support Senor Martinez, a member of the Supreme Court, in whose residence the chief plotters were arrested. The bombardment of th© President’s palace and assassination of a number of the President’s leading followers had been planned. Leguia’s dictatoral method of deporting scores of his opponents is one of the causes of the revolutionary unrest.
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Southland Times, Issue 19101, 20 November 1923, Page 5
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142DISCONTENT IN PERU Southland Times, Issue 19101, 20 November 1923, Page 5
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