Show SITUATION IN I CHILI History of the Trouble With Minister Egan HE OBSERVED NEUTRALITY The Enzrlish Are Hostile to Him British Minister Kennedy Busies Himself With Circulating False Reports NEW YORK Nov 12The Associated Press has received from its special corresponded cor-responded in Chili a series of communications communi-cations covering events since the over throw of Balmacedas government dealing at length with matters of interest to Americans and giving many interesting details of events which heretofore have been but briefly touched upon in the cablegrams cable-grams speaking of the hostile attitude toward to-ward the United States and particularly against Minister Egan he says A majority jority of the charges are APPARENTLT WITHOUT FOUNDATION aed arise principally from the fact that American officials in Chili did not give moral and physical support to the revolutionists revolu-tionists during the war There is hardly a foreign resident at any port along the entire en-tire coast of Chill who did not sympathize to a great extent with the cause of the revolutionists The latter assert the United States government at Washington was not made acquainted with the true state of affairs in Chili The seizure of the steamer Itata was the first incident which aroused decided illfeeling and American naval officers who were in Iquique at the time express the opinion the revolutionists would never have surrendered the steamer had it not been for the presence of tne strong United States naval force The next thing was the cutting of the cable wire of the Central and South American company near Iquique The revolutionists refused to allow cable messages mes-sages to be sent from Valparaiso and other points controlled by Balmaceda The cable was owned by the American company com-pany who applied to the United States representatives lor relief Captain Schley of the Baltimore directed that the cable be cut beyond the distance of a marine mile I from the shore The revolutionists ships the Cochrano and Huascar were present out the Baltimore Balti-more was prepared for any resistance they might offer The revolutionists made the I claim that the AMERICANS lAD OUT THE CABLE so Balmacodas spies in the northern part of Chili could send information to Lima bj another cable line which was intact and then have it resent direct from Lima to Valparaiso over the American cable which had been cut Consequently during the last days of the war the revolutionists had come to rogard the Americans particularly particular-ly the naval representatives here as the ales of Balmacoda and wore prepared to believe any report which might seem to substantiate their views Tho most violent attacks however were made upon AdmIral Brown They assert he brbught information informa-tion of their landing at Quintero eighteen miles north of Valparaiso to Balmaceda This story and Admiral Browns letter in explanation already have been published in this country The correspondent says when Admiral Brown returned to Valparaiso Val-paraiso that day with his flagship the San Francisco ho sent a cipher dispatch ashore for the navy department at Washington The officer who took i had to have it approved ap-proved by the intendente and within an hour or two after he had filed it BALMACEDAS TROOPS WERE MOVING toward Quintero and the newspapers had out extras in which it was published that the San Francisco had just arrived with news of the landing of the revolutionists at Quintero The revolutionary press has been verv bitter in its attacks on Admiral Brown and charges are still being made against dim despite his denials that his visit to Quintero was inj l the interest of Balmaceda Much capital is being made out of the fact that some official correspondence between Balmacedas ministers in August has been found in which it is stated they are trying to get a neutral vessel to get certain information in-formation regarding the revolutionists In the present state of feeling the belief is general the vessel referred to is the San Francisco The correspondent says there is little doubt the foreign residents in Valparaiso against Val-paraiso Americans are assisting in fanning the flame In I letter dated October 30 the correspondent corre-spondent deals at length with the matter of the REFUGEES SHELTERED IN THE AMERICAN LEGATION at Santiago and the trouble arising there from He says Minister Egan had instructions instruc-tions from Washington that the United States would continue to give asylum to refugees until the Chum authorities unti Chian guarantee guar-antee their safe removal to some neutral territory and further that the United States would not permit its minister to be harrassed because of the presence of these refugees in the legation Captain Schley of the Baltimore had also received instructions instruc-tions from the navy department regarding the arrest of persons entering the legation The correspondent says the order was revoked yoked after Minister Egan entered a strong protest but spies were still watching the building There is ground for tho belief that a similar plan was resorted to in the case of the Argentine legation whore Bal maceda was sheltered and the expresi dent knowing escape was impossible suicided rather than subject the minister to further responsibility There is no doubt the Chilians intended the order of surveillance and arrest should impress refugees in the American legation with the feeling thai they were causing Ean him trouble and that i was their duty to relieve himThe The correspondent at Santiago writes there is little doubt the PRIMARY OAUSE OP THE REVOLTJTION was the fact that English interests in the nitrate properties were threatened by Bal maceda Numerous instances developed during the war In which valuable assistance assist-ance was given revolutionists by Eng lish representatives in Chili and it is a fact thatthe English residents are now the strongest in their denunciations of Americans cans and misrepresentation of the conduct I of American officers Conservative ChiI ans state the present feqllng will not continue con-tinue and that commercial relations with the United States will not be affected when the present trouble has blown over Those open in opposition to America however are very bitter The correspondent says the methods of reconstruction pursued by the Junta are hardly in accord with strict ideas of peace On theist of October between four and five thousand persons who had boen supporters sup-porters of Balmaceda were imprisoned awaiting trial and there are more than ten thousand others including nearly everyone every-one known to have been connected with the late government whom the present leaders have announced their intention to arrest The correspondent thought however how-ever most of the prosecutions would be abandoned after election although they > will be pushed against all persons of any prominence There has been NO APPARENT EFFORT AT RECONCILIATION but on the contrary the attitude of tho present government has been from the first such as to warn all persons who supported Balmaceda they wereregarded as criminals crimi-nals The newspaper press of Santiago and Valparaiso heartily supports the new government in this attitude and since the war closed has been busily engaged printing print-ing columns of accounts of outrageous crimes of the Balmacedan administration The correspondent asserts many of the defeated de-feated soldiers of Balmaceda were slaughtered slaught-ered on the field at Plaoillas after they had been disabled by wounds High officials disclaim responsibility for these actions and for the sacking of houses in Santiago THE DESTRUCTION IN SANTIAGO vas enormous The most magnificent residences resi-dences in the city belonging to members of Balmacedasparty were entered and every t thing they contained demolished Doors and windows were brottenout and nothing left but the bare walls Persons chargea with having performed criminal acts under Balmacedas administration have suffered confiscation of properly In a letter under date of October 15 the correspondent says among Americans in Chi or at least those who enjoy the respect re-spect of the community in which they live there is not to be found one who expresses any sympathy with the charges made against Egan hero and in a section of the American press Egans policy ho says has been one calculated to advance American can Interests in Chili without any attempt at secrecy He endeavored to make ar angements with the Chilian government then represented by Balmacoda by which some inducement would OB offered for American capital to become interested in the valuable nitrate property in the northern north-ern part of the country This enterprise had hitherto been and still is controlled almost al-most exclusively by the English This was the chief of the IMPROPER CONTRACTS with Balmacedas government which Egan isaccused of making The most he could have obtained and the most he had any intention in-tention of obtaining was a share of the nitrate business for Americans who might care to enlist in the enterprise But there was hardly an Englishman In all Chili who did not regard these efforts on the part of the American minister as a direct menace to English interests and there has hardly been an Englishman in Chili since that time who has not contributed his share to the general outcry against Egan and all Americans Minister Egan also endeavored endeav-ored to agitate for tho establishment of an American steamship line on the west coast of South America and was instrumental instru-mental in having American cable lines extended ex-tended to Valparaiso He undertook other measures of a similar nature and in al these efforts to advance THE INTERESTS OF HIS COUNTRY be met the same opposition and the same criticism All this occurred before the revolution in Chili began At that time I many American residents declared themselves them-selves more or less openly in favor of the revolutionists Egan did not do so for the very good reason ho was accredited to the I government headed by Balmaceda The insurgents however at all times admitted but one principle and that was that persons per-sons who did not declare openly in their favor must be opposed When the Itata was siezed the English residents started the chaige that Egan was responsible although ho knew nothing about it beyond what he read in the Chilian newspapers The correspondent says Egan was never accused of visiting Balmaceda or the representatives repre-sentatives of his government and afterward after-ward declaring openly in favor of the insurgents in-surgents and expressing the hope they would win On the contrary Kennedy tho British minister and other foreign diplomats expressed loud opinions in favor of the insurgents EGAN COURTS THE FULLEST INVESTIGATION on his neutrality during tho whole progress pro-gress of the war and BOino of tan most prominent men in Congressional party 1 now do not hesitate to declare that his position po-sition was one of strict neutrality ThoEnglish residents and English minister however continue to circulate annoying rumors about Egan and keep before tho public insulting insinuations which are entirely en-tirely without foundation The English minister himself being criticized for having hav-ing secured for Balmaceda a British man ofwar in which to send several millions in silver out 01 me country At tne date or the letter the provisional government had acknowledged the United States minister was acting right in giving the refugees asylum and it is believed a safe conduct will ultimately be issued A letter is enclosed which was printed in a Santiago paper from Frank Egan son of the minister dealing at length with the inuendoes dealt in by certain American papers and refuting tha charges brought against himself and fattier in the matter of contracts fat jobs etc |