Show THE CHILEAN STRUGGLE thir THE chilean revolution still drage draga its ita slow length along from day to day column after column of dispatches arrive detailing the horrors of trie tile bloody strife but so conflict conflicting ting are these accounts that the real situation is still a mystery to the average reader on the dinst three distinguished chileans Chi leans arrived in new york they are the mout varas and maria they represent the insurgent or congressional party and they are here on business with our state department at washington mout and varas were at one time president and vice preel dent of chile they belonged to the old church conservative party but their administration gave universal satisfaction the insurgent party has now a completely organized government with its capital at aquique iquique it has not a president but it has a chamber of deputies mont and varas have come in the hope of getting our government to to recognize the iquique aquique organization according to these gentlemen balmaceda to is a second torquemada while the insurgent leaders are veritable john Hamp dens dans that the civil war in chile is carried on with barbarous ferocity on both sides no one can deny nor Is this inconsistent with the history of the people the indians the original inhabitants of that country were a bold warlike irrepressible race they were the only people in the new world that the spaniards did not conquer aztec peruvian ane venezuelan all went down before cortez and pizar zo but the held his hie ground and proved as immovable ae aa one of the peaks of his native andes in fact arauco was called by the other american tribes the in invincible state when the spaniards were pushing their conquests in all directions the did not wait to be attacked they marched out to help the neighboring tribes in their first batt battle lewith with the spaniards they fought like european disciplined troops they were formed into companies and regiments they braved with coolness the fire of the from the spaniards and retreated with military order they organized a second army but the leader was a weak man and the spaniards invaded the territory of arauco an old chief then came forward and exhorted his countrymen to expel the spaniards A new chief was chosen and then commenced a war that on the part of the rians for or valor 1011 daring and self flee fice has faas no parallel in history even the abe women woman fought in the ranks and chief who in retreat was accompanied one on by his wife and child allowed himself to be captured alive was up braided by her and the child thrown away avay as being the ofis offspring pring of a the famous battle of december 3 1553 between the spaniards and their allies on one side and the niana on the other resembles in a manner the famous battle of winchester chester during our late civil war for hours the contest was wag fought with vigor 02 on both sides then the indians began to tco give way at t this point a lad who was a prisoner in the spanish camp broke away and met his retreating countrymen reproaching them for their cowardice and want of patriotism at the same time be seized a spear and killed the spanish commander ma rider the renewed the battle and completely vanquished their enemies the history of this tribe to is both peculiar and nd interesting some writers c contend gutend that it was not of the same race go as the other aborigines abor ignes its CUR CUB habits and modes of life tows tome wre were different from those of other tribes but it was in its methods of warfare that it challenged the curiosity of the early spanish invaders these fought like regularly disciplined troop in bravery and valor sparta never produced anything to excel them during all the wars down dowd to the e commencement of the present century this tribe maintained its ita independence after the freedom of chile WM was accomplished becam part P of e the ne new republic the old warlike tribe mixed and Inter interman marl ried rid with both the other tribes and with spaniards it to is said that the filk fighting ting men on both sides of the present revolution are composed largely of and their halfbreed half breed kinsmen that is one of tho the reasons given for the many dreadful and bloody conflicts which characterize the existing struggle and furthermore it to is thought that before the end comes one side must be completely vanquished if not exterminated |