POLICE STAGE WITCH-HUNT RAID IN LIMA
In a raid on the Communist party newspaper Unidad, in Lima, January 9, 100 persons were arrested, including the party's general secretary. Police charged that the office was a guerrilla center
and announced the seizure of "huge amounts
of propaganda" and materials for Molotov
cocktails. The Peruvian Federation of
Journalists energetically protested this
act as a violation of freedom of the press.