FIGHTING IN BUENOS AYRES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2118, 30 October 1890, Page 3

FIGHTING IN BUENOS AYRES.

There is an air of mighty impartiality about the way they fought in Buenos .-vyres. U»ually when the police are not strong enough to quell a disturbance they ask tor the help of the military. In South Africa it is different. Discontented soldiers opened the ball by firing on the police, who seem to form ihe bulk of the well-disposed population. The telegraphic wires were promptly cut, but news has trickled through. The police were indiscrimina e in their attentions. When they bad not the soldiery for targets the unarmed civilians served the purpose equally well. One policeman “in mere wantonuess split an Englishman’s bead open with a sabre.” A bystander, just as playful, “ instantly shot the policeman down.” It is “the anarchical and corrupt” Goverment of I)r Juarez Celman that the insurgents meant to give short shrift to. There was no lack of prudence, seemingly on the side of the anarchical and corrupt, fur the president bad a special train in waiting, with steam up, in case his party should be the trounced and trouncers. A train with steam up has a curiously incongruous sound in such close connection with warfare. But ” He who jfights and runs away may lire to fight another day,” and a special train is capital for the running away part of the business.