TROUBLE IN PERU

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 424, 15 November 1930, Page 7

TROUBLE IN PERU

EVIDENCE OF REVOLT. FOREIGNERS APPREHENSIVE. LIMA, Nov. 13. Evidence of revolt is visible at vanous points in the interior. Foreigners reaching here are considerably worried over the fate of ethers left behind along the disorganised small railways, which are not dependable at best.

The authorities assert that the troubles are largely due to Communists’ influence among the native miners or serrenos, who are invariably susceptible to influences of political labour agitators. The latter have recently been inciting trouble, due to the closure of thf mines following the drop in metal prices. A general strike is threatened.

Though Peru appears to be calmer today, the outcome of the whole trouble will largely depend on whether the foreigners were among a number of women who succeeded in escaping from excited natives. The latter, as descendants of the conquered Inca races, continue to harbour hatred against all foreigners. Americans Killed. Military law was invoked here and in other cities of Peru to-day. Several Americans w’ere fatally assaulted by the striking miners in the neighbourhood of the Gerrode Pasco Mines. The United State has large copper and goldmining interest in this district, 15,000 feet above sea level. British and American women and children are being moved out of the mining area. News from Lima state that refugees rive picturesque accounts of the experiences in the Cerro de Pasco region. It is now’ known that 145 foreigners are still within the danger zone. The miners are reported to have been led in the attacks by a “white Peruvian woman named Grey,” who shouted for them to “Kill the Yankees and drink their blood.”

Refugees arrived at Lima on a train driven by a British miner named Knubsen, who assumed control and brought the train through with great difficulty, due to his unfamiliarity with enginedriving.