Show CHILI THREATENS TENS WAR ViAR I II I United States Is ged Into a arate aLAND rate 1 2 LAND GRill GRM THE HE ISSUE 4 BELLICOSE NATION N TION SEEKS TO o HOLD PROVINCE PRO C BY FORCE Correspondence of the Associated Press Valparaiso Chill Chili Aug 1 LA A three three sided conflict is in prospect on account of the question which has remained in abeyance abey ce since the treaty of Ancon which terminated in 1884 the victorious war of Chili Chill against Peru and Bolivia It was agreed then that the victor was to occupy the Pe Pc Peruvian ruvian provinces of Tacna and Arica Anica for ten years alter after which a tum turn was to declare re whether those provinces wanted to be with Chili or returned to Peru The days passed however without any being taken The put it off under nader this or r that pretext because it Is claimed they wanted to colonize the provinces with their own people and thus secure a majority in their favor at the holding of the It is asserted that they sent their soldiers and all kinds of people from the slums of the Chil Chilian Chilian ChilIan ian seaports Claims of Peru But Peru held that only legitimate natives of the two provinces should be entitled to vote yote at the and that the method of voting and the qualifications of the voters should be determined by b a special protocol as provided for in the Ancon treaty Chili at last consented to this in 1898 at a time when she anticipated a war with lUh the and feared Peru might side with the latter The Torro protocol was then signed at Santiago and approved by the But Chili peacefully arranged her dispute with Argentina and her chamber of deputies did not even discuss the question of the pro pm protocol tocol to ocol col which being approved only ny by DY bythe bythe the senate remained d a dead letter The question of the final ownership of and Arica has thus remained rema unsettled and Chill Chil still stUl occupies the provinces with the deliberate rate intention don tion according to many nian Chilian papers paper and political speaks speakers of keeping there them forever Still many maIlY admit that the of or the two provinces has produced no effect and that they are as strongly attached to their mother country as on the day when they were taken from her and that the two provinces are a eagerly waiting fo for the day when they ther will wilt be tie freed from domination Peru Pern makes an appeal to arbitration In or order or order orden der den to settle the th question q of the final ownership of these provinces United States Is Ta Involved And here comes the point where the United States and ant the ArgentIne A re republic republic public a I g iny the The United States ing invited all the countries to participate in the second congress to be held at Mexico In October 1901 must have been surprised to receive from the Chil Chilian ChilIan Chilian ian government a conditional accept acceptance acceptance ance Chili being aware that the con congress gress was to proclaim arbitration as the only method to settle international differences on this continent answered that it would send representatives to the congress only on the condition that arbitration should apply exclusively to to future disputes The acceptance of bf such a condition it is pointed would leave Chili free to act as she pleased with reference to the annexation annexatIon annexation tion of Tacna and Arica Meanwhile the people of Argentina began besan to fear that the would not accept the decision about the frontier limit ques question question question tion which hat had been submitted to the arbitration of Queen Victoria And Andas as if to support and justify their fears it is reported that the Chilian govern government government ment meat has trespassed upon the absolute rights of the arbitrator in imposing the obligation of limiting the award to such and such points No wonder that amid this mess of conflicts the governments are making preparations for war While Chili Chill has hassent hassent hassent sent to Germany German her favorite general Korner to buy guns and cannon Peru has dispatched on a similar errand her former president General Caceres and the Argentine republic is drilling Its national guards In addition there is about to be instituted in Chili com compulsory compulsory compulsory military service and the re regrettable regrettable regrettable system of armed peace may maybe ma mabe maybe be inflicted upon the republics of South America as a result of the fact that Chili now holds over them a t sword of Damocles through her unwillingness to settle finally the old question of Tacna and Arica |