Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-27
Peru Revolt Leader to Super.
cede Group Which Forced
President Out.
ARMY MEN ARE LOYAL
TO AR6QUIPA CHIEFTAIN
0usted Dictator Runs Fever Aboard
Warship Held in Callao Harbor,
Awaiting Enemies Wrath.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LIMA, Peru. August 27.-The mill
tary junta which overthrow the gov
eminent of President Leguia and seized
control of Peru will resign and Luis M
Sanchez Cerro will head a new govern
ment, according to reliable advices at
noon today.
Lieut.. Col. Cerro came out victorious
in a political overturn at Arequipa,
Southern Peru, last week, just before
the government passed into the hands
OF the military junta and sent the aged
executive, Augusta Leguia, who had held
the reins of government for IL years,
into exile on a warShip.
1t was announced that CerTo will ar
rive in Lima some time this afternoon.
According to morning newspapers, the
members of the junta met alla yes
terday afternoon and the greater part
Of the night in the palace, leaving only
about 2:30 am, when Gen. Ponce and
some of his colleagues went to Choir
Rios to confer with Gen. Sarmiento,
Col. Montague, and others.
Army Units Refuse Adherence.
The military school and other army
units were said to have declared they
preme chief
The southern militarists objected to
the nature of the junta in control at
Lima, which yesterday sent a commits
sion 70 him in the expectation that an
amicable agreement could be reached.
Cerro'S answer, according to private
adviceS hltering through Peru today,
was the Selling of the airplane in which
Col. Lopez, the arbiter, and his COM
panions travelled from Lima, and three
other planes, including that of the
American military expert, Capt. Grow,
who also is in custody as an adherent
of the former regime of President
Leguia.
Leguia, an i'll old man of 81, tossed
feverishly in bed aboard the cruiser,
Almirante Grau, in Callao Harbor to-
day, and sought a way out Of the trap
in which his political enemies, long sup
pressed, had caught him.
Friends and the diplomatic corps in
Lima sought assurances of his safety,
but countering their efforts were the
activities of returning exiles and freed
political prisoners with profound con-
victions of old and stupendous scores
to settle.
Illness Is Serious.
The former President, whose status
overnight from dictator OF one
of the most powerful South American
republics to that Of a prisoner awaiting
Judgment, was said today to be serious
ly, although not gravely, Ill of uremic
attack, which struck him down Monday
afternoon. not many hours after his
resignation.
An American physician, DR.. McCor-
mack, visited him three times Tuesday
aboard the Almirante Grau. After the
last visit he said his patient had a tenn
perature Of 38 degrees c (1004 Fab
renhei0, and was feeling somewhat
better. His statement stilled reports
current in Lima that he was dead, or
dying.
The Almirante Grau returned to CAL
lao Harbor with the former president
only after events which inspired a
false hope of freedom in exile In him
Leaving Monday morning after his res
ignation, the officers of the cruiser
thought to take their prisoner to Pana-
ma and land him there.
The junta informed the captain that
IL Leguia were not delivered to them
within 48 hours the ship would be
treated as an enemy vessel and its off,
GERS held to account.
Martial law still is In force here
Complete order prevails.
u. S. DELAYS PERU RECOGNITION.