PERU: Whirligig

On the return voyage to Europe last week of the liner Oropesa (the ship that carried Edward of Wales and Prince George to Peru), her royal suite, especially fitted up for Their Royal Highnesses, was occupied by a hard-faced little man with only seven fingers.

As President Lieut.-Colonel Sanchez Cerro had pinned Edward of Wales with Peru's Order of the Sun, was pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Then he was almost immediately overthrown. As he prepared to sail away from Peru last week in...

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