Seven-fingered Cerro

Because three fingers of his left hand have been shot off, that hand is often clenched Napoleon-like behind the back of Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro, hard-featured, short-statured leader of the Peruvian revolution which made him

President (TIME, Sept. 1 & 8). Last week, having been photographed in his favorite attitude between Edward of Wales and Prince George (both nervous, they both held both hands behind their backs), and having got their Royal Highnesses safely out of Peru (see above) the doughty little colonel faced two revolutions which burst forth two days later (day after the birthday of ousted ex-Dictator Augusto Bernardino Leguia).

When 60 armed civilians and soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Lima it was only a short day's work for Col. Cerro's troops to scatter them with machine gun fire, chase them eight miles down to the Port of Callao (where T. R. H. were saluted fortnight ago) and end the No. 1 revolution there, after some 60 persons had been slain (one of them Reginald A. Skidmore of the Grace Line, killed by a stray bullet while playing billiards at the Strangers' Club).

Harder to cope with was the No. 2 revolution. It started at Arequipa in southern Peru, where the President got his own revolutionary start. While loyal troops moved against the rebels, airplanes rained down on Arequipa copies of Lima newspapers announcing that Arequipa was "alone in her revolt," would soon again be in the grasp of Seven-fingered Col. Cerro.

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