| Show THE TROUBLE BETWEEN j ti I I CHILE AND ARGENTINA T 1 might aught as ON trop wall be bo 0 ono one thing a ui another fur for the South Mouth American republics l teem seem t J nearly to 0 be b on tho the verse verge of at w war r and only I happy when they have ono one i l f hr of t by the ears earl Ju Just t now It Is a I I of ot boundary line hue between In Chile and the Argentine On a n war 11 touting fouling Chile has hall n a nightly 0 larger army then than Argentina or ULAO which Is l about more titan her herg 0 il V g P Y Lw q qI I I r OF OP neighbor but bUI t tho latter ono OlIn show hov n re reatIe reserve serve atIe ve or o national cuard guard of or about men fo reactive active operations wore Toro threat threatened ened and tho thin purchase of ot now lie ships bo Le iron gnu their respective naval status was waa wasas ui III follows first elMs claw battleship 21 le rs rH and aud gunboats gunboat ti I 1 destroyers 27 21 2 torpedo boats W ao transports and dill dis dispatch patch heats boats Ion Is OS 08 heavy guns seey sec secondary and nd machine guns gunn Chile Three third clans battleships 10 e ail gunboats 6 0 destroyers 21 torpedo torl do boats 30 80 transports and dis dispatch patch boats 0 miscellaneous vessels ls 33 36 heavy guns gun CIO GIO secondary and machine guns To fo this equipment add adit whatever ha hM hape been pe n within this the past pant few weeks ok and time the naval strength of ot tho tiro two los will ba ha shown At a 1 glance Ionel the two republics are uro not lint evenly balanced ns IH to area population and natural resources but hut their armies though timers there Is coma difference as to numbers are client about an ne well matched OH nil they could be The Tho Argentine Republic tom for Instance line has nn an area Including her bier portion portico of or Pu In go n la and del lei of or about square miles as ae against Chiles Chilis AH As to 10 U population po lion tion At emina lies has about op oli opposed poses posed to Chiles OO It I ls Is perhaps fortunate that a n vast v st and ail tugged rugged mountain tango range separated separates this the enraged belligerents and ami that whatever anode of ot Is adopted naval natal or hand It will be rather for tor them then to get gol nt at each ench other Chile as ns IH he well troll known has Ims long horns horn the reputation of or being olm fiery Hery and inso Inao insolent lent to all nil her neighbors We 0 nerd need go gono gono gono no further than ten ton years bark tb 6 the this Routh American Yankees as rill tho thin 1 Chileans sir arc called getting ready rend to toi i fight Uncle Scam Bam as no the UIO outcome of ot tho the affair when several of ot 0 our thou sailors were Vern killed Inn n n ilot riot Icing Going back to 10 the time lino when the American colonies colones of wore were striving strivIng ing Ins to 10 free fice themselves w o 0 hail find that aft after aftem er em Argentina had bind driven out the this Span pan lards larda and established e her Independence she h sent a 1 small e army to assist Chile 1 I r Jt V j 1 9 1 I j I II III 4 h n I I PIS I I i I I L I I I I I II I If II f I Ir Irr J r I Ii i I l hai I IIII III l pip I I i II I i II IIi n I I III I bJ I PRESIDENT InI I NT ROPA OF OP TU AH AU Who n as It was wan only acquired her hor tree free freedom dom damn do In III 1118 With her tack back lJ cl up lP against t the Andean mountain range rengo and tho limo ocean to the west went of ot her Chile ilia was wn compelled to expand north and south soul 80 So she ahe fought Peru 1111 and nd tram from 1870 to 1883 1828 oven liven though Chile and Porn Peru had huel together tJ striven against Spain from 1866 1266 to 10 1118 With her head hl turn turned turned turned ed by br the successes e of ot the visit Ian war It t U is I not strange that should have lIa Vi considered herself h cook of pt the walk and In duo time have hue offered Insult to peaceful Uncle fools Sunni Sam himself The rhe present complication grew out of the treaty of ot lilt 1811 by b which Chile and stud Argentina agreed to consider tho the emit of ot the Andes Ande ns us the dividing line f between their respective governments II 1 All east t of ot tho the crest Including the tho y part ot of Patagonia and nd a It portion af ot Tierra del Fuego was AI granted Blunted l to tt Ar Argentina Argentina gentina while Chile took all between the Andean crest and anti the ocean i that agreement wm was lh in en n Into twenty wenly t y years t ars tJI ago allO but Jut there th ro have ben been frequent d as a ath th the hete were many times before ore for br the tho trouble Is I t similar to that ex In the cate case of ot the Alaskan Ah boundary It Is III a n question of ot wAter I abed merely meI and involves Involve the l Ot s sI I lion elan 10 of or about a It thousand square miles only of ot uninhabited suds laud 0 |
