RIOTS IN PERU.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2013, 21 March 1914, Page 5

RIOTS IN PERU.

STREETS CLEARED OF ANGRY MOBS.

SABHES AND RIFL® FIRE.

'Times" and Sydney 'Sim" Services. (Bee, Slarch, gl), 0.20 p. m .) Ulna, ifareh 19.' Lively scenes hftro occnawl here. Mobs who are exposing Don 'JU'gisia for the. Presiik'jicy s«we been -disifete'ing tirc-91-nis in tlio streets, turd n.iiilin" demonstrrtiisms. 'illo gr-ndrfrmes dispersed tit* .riotm vttti volleys, charging I;hr-3#ji the streets sfk-nvaris with "drawn sabre?.

Benter's representative reccnth l had an ! interview ivitli os-Prcsidraif; 1/RguU, of Porn, who was de-ported from tlio iomiitry V President ©illingliunst last July', ' Sraior Le.guia Ji-nd Wiieivttd si number hi ' telegrams front Lima giving details of therecent rovoUttfoft (wlaiiU emhxt in tlffi ar- - rest owl imprisonment at President BJJr' lfoglntrst) and exjiUireing tire nature .of; tlio nwvcMrajt. Asked if in view of tlio- '. SHMtes of his party he- would again -ac- . cept the PtcSidc-iicy, Hie d<> chireil that he would not do so, as 'ho had already served a full term «f ftitir years, "This," he said, "is not oft o.rdina*y lie* volution. It is ii determined attempt on tho part of Congress aiid iM Attivy, sip'ting iopsUy, to i-estore coiislitH-tional rij'p'liliods, which had been destrovtii; : b'y ftp President, ijiarini; his sixteen raobtli'S of office iPresido-nt 'BilliuglHiTst persistently isrnored the- bolter eliwses, iiltd gath.6red wuitl I'r'im pe-rse-ni? rf no ssclal standfi-if? who yfctfe teaily to do hjs will,, . 'I'l* trouble- has been brewinj for, ' spiiio months, during wluils tiwo the President has been to get <t -mn-joHty Hi Congress, wliicli; lie/ has ;jiot pa-sScsspd, tn July last lie prepared a Budget wlifch Coinftrcss refiiscd to sanSi'tioii. Kotwitiistantt■ing this, on December 29 he. issted a. d'e : are* lio'lijj-.ing the nn'Mon that the. Bttdget whidi had keen, j'ojficted was in force. Seller lie.?uia, in r*ffi(Hing 'fl* ci't'cuinstaiices of liifl own dcpßrtatioii, said that in .Inly .test the- President owjere'd a tonibtfl Iks plwed in (;!i* lwiiso of the President of the Senate t<i prevent Ms pre.siding' ni t'lrat day's sessioit. An esiilnsidn .oecni'--. redj ciiie innri was IciHod, ond fiiucli. damage whs done, O'-ii the following- day ft inch was sent Is attack Seiioi' .t<jS!-i-i.a*s itoii.se.' Fighting went oii for tiro and o. half kßiii-s, t-We-*-i"resvdoii.t. was. fired n't on sev.eral occasions* alvd seme guests ; n.t A dinner party in, his- house -had : ifo,eSr cape by the -roof, the ijttaels .jjhcleiT flfc i!.3t) at night. La-ter fe Prcsiflsiit ee'n.'tidwsvn offieers forniaß-j' to ftjxest Senor_Le'giutt. Ho was placed ij) pi-isfl-n, but ,af;te:i..iraKlis released oft rj'r'orii'Wivg ilia : f lie ■wtiultl immediately leave 'Rio eoiMr-y. He did so, ■