The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-09
SOUTH AMERICANS
 CELEBRATE AYACUCHO
 ANNIVERSARY TO-DAY

In years to come, when the South American republics have gained that ssplace in inc sum- to which the gifts
 of prodigaI nature entitle them the
 battle of Ayacucho will doubtless be
 listed among the decisive struggles of
 the worlds history. It was just
 ninety years ago that the Peruvian
 patriots under command of Gen Sl7-- ere defeated, overwhelmed and almost
 completely annihiIated the forces or Spain. and compelled the remnants of
 the last royaIst army to abandon the
 country Peru and Bolivia will cele-
 brate the glorious Ninth of Decem-
 ber'' today as a general holiday and
 due honor will be paid to the memory
 of Sucre, one of the liberators and the first president of Bolivia, after whom
 the capital of that .shernft repub- 1ic'' was named.
 On that vast pLateau which extends in length over 500 miles. with an av- craze altitude of 12, ,oOO feet above sea ! level. which was then called Upper Peru but is now the Bolivian republic the armies Of Spain rallied for thelr last stand on the soil of South Amer lea It was in that country that the revolution against Spanish authority commenced in 1909, when the citt~ zens of La Paz deposed the Spanish officials. In that inland town, deat= catedN to peace, the first blood Of the rebellion was shed. The spirit of re- iyoIt spread over the continent and Bolivar in the North. San Martin the Irish O'Hggins and Lord Coca= rane in the South. drove the Spanisrds from one stronghold after another.
 Argentine, Chile, Colombia and other countries threw off the yoke, until at last the banner of royalisTn Haunted it's folds only in Peru.
 1 San Martin, the Argentine General | tsthe purest patriot of all time" hacv- l ing helped to free his native land and | (I, D lFr6 al Peru, and was ably assisted by the Chilean feet, commended by 1oru | Thomas Cochranes afterward the 10th Earl of Dundonald. This brave Scotchman, after a brilliant naval ca reer in the service of Great Britalns' 1 was unjustly accused of crime Dis | graced by Imprisonment, he went to l South America and turned his ability I as naval officer to good account in l the wars for liberty. Later he was
 him, and was restored to the Order
 of the Bath and the English navy bue he will always be remembered for his great exploits as the commander o1 ChiIe's little but powerful navy I After Cochrane had defeated and | destroyed the Spanish fleet and cap l tured the port of Callao, San Mar tin with his army triuTnp phantly enter I ed Lima, Pizarro's ancient ''City of the Kings and by 1928 the patriots E were III CO14lp1SS& kOS9SSoAOAA SA -@@ss-- Peru The royaIists were not dispos-
 ed to give up the struggle, however, and they assembled their forces for a
 last stand in Upper Peru
 In the meantime Bolivar, the lib orator of northern South Americas
 had dispatched an army to the assist ance of the struggling Peruvtans. The Colombian force was commended by Gen. Antonio Jose de Sucres Bol-
 tyar,s ablest lieutenant, and on the ninth of. December, 1924. he came up
 with the Spaniards at Ayacucho. The royalists fought valiantly, but they
 could not withstand the furious charge of the patriot army, and af-
 ter brief and terrible engagement they fled in a wild rout. By that
 victory the South American continent } was left free to work out it's own des-
 tinies, free from European dOminion.