Show And now poor little exhausted Peru IH to be the next victim of European bullying France presents a peremptory peremp-tory demand fqr the payment of something some-thing more than sixteen million dollars dol-lars Of course Peru has no mcnnn of 1 getting 60 much monwy Chllo hint held Pcrua phonnhale l mines or Tncna and Arlca ever since the jwtir between those countries and thus I the rich revenues from them go to Chile aud not to Pc I j ru since 1SS1 though Chile agreed l lo return the provinces after ten ycare but has not done GO nthe end of twenty twen-ty years und inobably will never do so unless the French may now Insist upon that being done as security for the payment of their clalm And neither nei-ther would that be a violation of the Monroe doctrine for the restoration of those provinces to Peru would not be giving France any territory but would only bo tho enforced carrying out of nn ngroement between the South American States The raid of European nations upon South Africa appears to be netting net-ting general |