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Show PRESIDENT BILLINGHURST T'v ' Jng to I Over SBi's 'work i ln l't!i U froje-ct ': ?imS::sMi'im:A i John .fx . 1 3 vwm rc: '. ; 14 ' WM ; ---V;-4- ,vart oi '&:mmVMri'- chic ffi B-?y:: .::'' ! 4 llie pn I ' V ficane f ,1,(11 -urred. t'i'KiA "ell- Lake, Senor Guillermo Billinghurst, prti iih dent of Peru, who succeeded Agos ' us(!(i Legula on September 24, was born; ,.,, Arica In 1851 of English parents. H was educated In Valparaiso and B. ?' ., . . romii nos Aires and for years hag bt prominent as both a scientist and :,klnS politician. Ho has held many put. "r offices. . 'Iu"5 ordered to fire' volleys into the air bg in order to prevent the formation of L crowds and by this method they kept f the panic-stricken people moving from place to place. A civilian bystander was killed by ! a bullet. ' ; Peru's sudden revolutionary true-bib is due principally to President Bill-inghurst's Bill-inghurst's earnest efforts to place the finances of his country on a sound basis. His scheme for doing, this involved in-volved the strictest economic throughout the Dublic service and nat urally proved unpopular, particularly among officeholders, who saw their salaries and estimates pruned with i merciless hand. ' |