The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-18
THE REVOLT IN PERU
Government Is Unable to Lift the
Siege at Lima.
REBELS GAINING IN NUMBERS
Business Is at u Standstill-The Press is
Gagged and Political Prisoners Arc
Separated from the Rest OF
the World.

TtD. lJ.-SotCFetdTy sIcI-
eral Caceres telegram to American
papers has been read here with much
Indignation.
The barefaced falsehoods 1t contains
and the audacity of publishing such
statements when many impartial for
eigners have witnessed the facts denied
in the said kilograms could only ema-
nate from Il source which to gain its
point its stops at nothing.
Fourteen young men and woman
were taken prisoners on their way, as
1t was said, to join the guerillas. The
Cacerist papers published news Of their
arrest and confinement in u police sta
tion, but since then there has been no
news Of them. Young Tirado was mur-
dered in the principal square of Matu-
cana In full daylight and in the presence
Of many persons, both native and for
eign.
Captain Sandrez, a political prisoner
was bound to a tree close to Barranco
the other day and shot in the presence
Of natives and foreigners by an officer
in command of one of Caceres' battali-
ons. These are only a few cases of the
many WHICH nave OCCURRED.
AS to the 150 political prisoners con-
fined in the underground dungeons in
Callao, even the Cacerist newspaper
has been compelled ON various occa-
sions to publish articles crying out for
their better treatment. | visited the
poor wretches in their subterranean
dungeons and found many of them i'll
owing to the bad food they get. The
press Is at present gagged. the political
prisoners are completely separated
from all intercourse with the outside
world, so no cry can be made in their
behalf, and the secretary of General
Caceres asserts that they are treated
with all humanity, despite evidence to
the contrary. Many Of the prisoners
have been released, it is true, but for
every batch released another batch
was taken to fill the vacant cells.
The Revolutions Success.
According to the secretary of Cen
eral Caceres, his party counts upon the
loyalty of the people and the fidelity of
the army and navy. But how about all
the places occupied by the revolution,
the taking Of Arequipa and Puno, the
10000 men today in arms in favor of the
revolution, the siege of Lima by 6,OOO
men of the revolutionary forces, and
the officers and soldiers of his army
who are daily passing over to the
enemy? These are not signs of loyalty
to Caceres and his government, GER
tainly.
The revolutionary forces burn and
destroy private property, says the Sec
retary. Every one i'm Peru will tell you
the revolutionary forces do no harm,
but pay for all they require, but that
Colonel Muniz, with government troops,
burned and destroyed valuable prop
erty in Canete, and that wherever they
go the government troops pay for moth
. Ing and only steal and destroy.
The revolutionary forces flee before
the government troops, says General
CacereS' secretary, but they took Are
quiqa and Puno, and fNr more than two
months Lima has been virtually be-
sieged by revolutionary forces, who
daily occupy the outskirts of the city:
and yet General Caceres, having, as he
says, a faithful army of 6,0O0 men in
Lima, does not go not at the head of
General CaCeres fears to leave Lima,
dreading possible defeat. He knows
that if he did SO the greater part of his
army, composed of soldiers forced to
serve him, unpaid and illtreated, would
go over to the enemy, while the popu-
lation of Lima would rise in his rear
and overwhelm him.
business Ruined.
At present in Piura the contending
forces seem pretty well balanced; some
times one gains point, sometimes the
other. Further south, Caiamarca is
held by the revolution, while the army
! of Colonel Caceres and that of Teodoro
Seminario watch each others move
ments in the neighborhood of Chiclayo
Nearer to the center. HuaraZ, in the in
/ terror and the ports of Huacho, Supe
etc, are held by the revolution. In the
center the government is in possession
only of Lima and Calloa
Business is ruined in these cities. and
living Ia becoming every day more eX-
pensive, partly owing to the increasing
scarcity of many articles and partly
owing to the taxes and duties which the
government constantly DEGREES in or.
der to raise money.
In the south there are some govern
ment troops near Pisco, and these are
kept In constant movement by sundry
bands of guerillas. Further south all
is lost to the government; Arequiba,
Puno, Cu2co, Moquequa all are at this
moment I'm the hands of the revolu-
tion.
Probably Senor Solar will form his
government in Arequipa, and then it is
thought will follow recognition as belli-
gerents by the foreign powers.