823.00 Revolutions/331: Telegram
The Chargé in Peru (Burdett) to the Secretary of State
Lima, July 12,
1932—9 a.m.
[Received 11:40 a.m.]
[Received 11:40 a.m.]
103. Embassy learns authentic source Trujillo only partially occupied by Government July 11, 4 p.m. and street fighting and sniping continued. Total casualties exceed 100.
Only Americans thought to be the city are H. A. Jaynes, United States Department of Agriculture, and Arthur Erickson, Pentecostal missionary.
Situation in Lima normal.
Burdett