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Show SOUTH AMERICAN TROUBLES. Not only do the states quarrel within, with-in, says the National Review, but they are perpetually fighting with thei neighbors. It would be tedious to give a list of South American wars. The most famous was that waged for five years between Brazil, the Argentine, and Uraguay, on the one hand, and "Marshal" Lopez of Paraguay, on the other, from 1865 to 1870. In this murderous mur-derous conflict the population of Paraguay Para-guay was reduced from a million to a quarter of a million, and heavy losses were inflicted upon the other states. In 1877 the Peruvian navy mutinied and turned pirate until it was eo-erced eo-erced by the British squadron on the spot. In 1879 Chile one of the most orderly states attacked Peru and Bolivia and fought them for two years, eventually despoiling them of much territory. In the 90s there were, two serious civil wars, of more than usual dimensions, endangering in some degree the peace of the world. There; was the bloody revolution and war of 1891 In Chile and a iess sanguinary struggle in 1893-4 in Brazil between the Peixotoists and Melloists. Since 1894 there have been continuous civil wars or insurrections In Colombia, Venezuela and Uraguay, and two of these states are at this moment in conflict |
