New York, June 11.
"According to messages from Peru, the Provisional has announced that been re-established throughout the country because "public ord /menaced by revolutionary plan:
A decree issued to-day states that the authorities will use firearms to suppress demonstrations and. to disperse groups of four or more persons who do not heed a verbal warning. Tt adds that persons suspected of sedition and rebellion will be summarily prosecuted and, if convicted, sentenced to death.
It is officially announced that fifty-five persons have been arrested. It is alleged that they had intended carrying out a plot to-day the House of Common 11 the Heme Secretary, Clyres, stated that the had given careful. consideration te the suggestion that an - inquiry should Be held into the lottery and sweepstake laws, but were not satisfied that the "present information denoted that the balance of opinion Pavliament, er of the country, was in favour of a revision of the! existing laws, jeho went down with all hands board.
The St. Philibert left Nantes on Sunday morning for a pleasure Jeruise to the Island of Noirmoutiers, [The return voyage, with weather Jconditions most threatening, was! begun early Sunday afternoon. Apparently, when off an. extremely rocky coast and no more than five miles from St. Nazaire the exon sion vessel encountered a sudden squall.
In what was all but a futile a tempt at rescue efforts the lifeboat Pornjc was rushed to the scene of the disaster from the lifeguards! station at Pointe St. Gildss, " Upon reaching the scene of the disaster the master of the Pornic sent sem Phore signals declaring that the St. Philibert had foundered without a No sign of pateengers or wreckage was found for nearly ai hour bat then he life savers boar! taken aboard, anne in the water. They we
Soon the lifeless bodies of the St. Philibert disaster victims began lsppearing on the surface of - the! stormy seas and many of" these were recovered rescuers Jaboard the Pornic. The tragic stars) lof the disaster began coming by semaphore signals from the Pornie Pointe St, Gildas and then semaphore relay to the St. Nazaire lifeboat star A storm reaching the proportions lof a gale was raging even when the! Pornic reached the scene of the St. Thilibert. sinking.
The victims of the St. Philibert Jicaster, in addition to the oticers land members of the crew of the ill-fated vessel, wore members of the Union Ca-operators from the Loire Inferieure Department who made the excursion to. the "Leland of Noirmoutier for pleasure, There are pathetic scenes here jand at Nantes. "Thousands, weep: ing, are lining the docks, in vain for the rescue ships. With lonly eight survivors of the disaster there who wait on the docks can da more than aid in the identifica. tion of the bodies which are being recovered from the sea. Some are being washed ashore, The Prefecture of Police at St. Nazaire has taken charge of the sad task of identifying the bodies of the dead men, women and children. Many bodies, it is feared, will never recovered—United Press.
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