Show o cJ C7 THE LASH IN GUATEMALA I Revival of Barbarous Punishment By Barrios San Francisco Dec 4The latest mail frbm Guatemala conveys the information in-formation that President Barrios is threatened with another uprising Advices have been received at the capital of the Central American repub lic to the effect that conspirators are at work in the northern part of the I country close to the Mexican border I and are being aided by political enemies ene-mies of Barrios in the eastern departments depart-ments of the government Behind the movement is said to be General Castillo who participated in I the recent uprising He had reorganized I reorgan-ized his forces in Salvador and then crossed the border an act which nearly I involved the two neighboring republics in serious trouble Castillo was routed and fled to Honduras I Barrios it is said is not greatly disturbed I dis-turbed by the information for he believes be-lieves that his recent victories will not encourage another serious uprising at least for a time He is reported however to be in an ugly mood and is dealing out terrible punishment to a number of prisoners whom he gathered I in during the uprising and has since I kept confined in the government penitentiary peni-tentiary in the city of Guatemala I Flogging has been revived and the clash c-lash is being used on about 200 prisoners f prison-ers most of whom are whipped everyday every-day The revival of the lash in Guatemala I Guate-mala was a great surprise to the people peo-ple for President Barrios had always heretofore regarded such punishment in a most unfavorable light 4 |