ENEMY PLOTS IN PERU

Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22247, 17 January 1944, Page 3

ENEMY PLOTS IN PERU

ARRESTS OF CONSPIRATORS TROUBLE IN OTHER STATES LIMA, Jan. 15 The Pert>/ian Government has announced that a number of conspirators, including Germans and Japanese, who plotted New Year pro-Nazi coups, nave been detained and would be deported. The Government said the conspirators staged anti-Jewish outbreaks on December 31, planning to cloak subversive activities in the subsequent disorders. Aliens in Peru attempted to join other elements trying to establish anti-democratic regimes in certain American countries. Confidential data received from abroad indicated that a united detailed plan was prepared for disturbances w.iich would break out on the afternoon of December 31, following :he well-known Nazi system cf simulating popular outbreaks and attacks on Jewish-owned shops. Subversive elements attempted to start disorders in Lima and other provincial capitals, and their followers launched a rumour that disorders had occurred in southern Peru. Police measures quelled all disorderly initiative. The New York Herald-Tribune says that well-founded reports from American diplomatic sources indicate that the pro-Axis elements in Argentina, which are believed to have staged the Bolivian coup on December 20, are at present active in Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Colombia. The United States Foreign Economic Administration has temporarily suspended normal exports to Bolivia until there is a recognised Government in that country. The Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, at a press conference said he was unable to comment on the suggestion that the United Nations should apply economic sanctions against Bcuvia. A message from Buenos Aires states that the Argentine Government has officially denied that the German blockade runner, the Corsair, recently sunk in the South Atlantic, was flying the Argentine flag when sighted, or that Argentinians were aboard. The Government alleged that the ship r.as flying the British flag.