Mutiny within the Peruvian navy according to the Dutch newspaper De Sumatra Post daily edition dated 8 June 1932

According to tiding dated Callao 9 May succeeded Communistic sailors on 8 May in capturing the two cruisers Almirante Grau and Coronel Bolognesi. The officers were taken prisoner and the command handed over to a committee of sailors. The cabinet reacted with a martial law and send naval airplanes and two submarines to the cruisers. The crew of the first cruiser immediately surrendered the second only after a torpedo hit below the waterline. Infantry from Lima take the ships over. The mutineers were interned on the island San Lorenzo off Lima waiting for a court-martial. Their leader was the communist Pezo. The Peruvian cabinet was all ready prepared for an eventual revolt was she was warned by a London firm for communistic revolts in South-America. The mutineers fired in the morning of the 8th also on other ships off the coast.