Show CHILE HAD BETTER GO SIO SLOW W if she would preserve her autonomy SHE IS PRESSING THE LIMIT what president harrisons Harrl sons message will say upon the Subject Chile playing for time etc washington NOTON jan 17 secretary tracy tonight to night made public the following dispatch distell tell from commander evans ot the WI yorktown bow dowat at valparaiso in regard to the refugees aboard that ves bel lel valparaiso jan 10 the tile american minister informs orlus lit mo t that hat the chilean minister of foreign affairs has changed his mind about the refugees now on the yorktown a and that they may not be taken take nouton out on a merchant vessel arrangements had been made for all of them to sail today to day but ille the change on the part of oatlie the chilean minister of foreign affairs compels me tile to keep them which crowds me tile very much shall I 1 I 1 land them at callao Calla or mollendo Mol lendo peru N no 0 steamers from here go direct to neutral territory thia this unexpected act of the tile chilean minister is 19 due he lie states in ili part to my saluting the tile spanish minister when he came on oil board to deliver two of the tile refu refugees 5 I 1 have requested the tile american n minister I 1 gee to say t to the chilean minister of foreign affa ali tars isa r s hat I 1 am responsible to my own government and not to that of chile his action seems unworthy of a representative senta tive ofa serious government signed EVANS the action on the part lart of cra the chilean minister of loreign foreign affairs in it deciding that the refugees might be taken out ut ot of any merchant vessel touching at a chilean port by local authority was vas a great reat surprise to the officials in ili washington secretary tracy said tonight to night that ho he will send a reply io to commander evans tomorrow instructing him what to do in fit the matter he lie will probably order the re refugees f taken to some place in neutral territory t 0 v bythe by the yorktown alie he latest move of the chilean government as voiced by the minister of foreign affairs in ili the present case is very unsatisfactory to such officials in ili washington as will express themselves with respect to the matter altis it is felt as being a case of adding insult to injury secretary tracy evidently regretted what had occurred and seemed to think it an affront to the nation IF CHILE PERSISTS president harrlson harrison will ask congress to declare war washington jan jail 13 sail san francisco chronicle di dispatch li president harrisons nies message ge t to 0 statch congress angress On gress said an official of prominence yesterday will be a calm conservative state paper which will review the poi points tits in lit d dispute between tile two coil countries it and it will vill he be accompanied by all the correspondence growing out of the valparaiso outrage as well as the testimony of the baltimore sailors taken by judge advocate bemy at vallejo it will probably be laid before congress next wednesday day or thursday president harrisons further communication to congress continued my informant will de depend end wholly holl upon the future at attitude t etude OF ol 01 chile title I 1 if chile still persists in ili her policy of delay and declines to disavow responsibility and to make proper reparation for the injury done to our proper sat sailors ors lie will then feel justified I 1 in n asking confess congress to declare decia re war everything depends 4 upon the developments of the next few d days avs TI the 1 e impression 0 O still ill prevails in high official 1 cire circles imbres es that chile will neither apologize nor in fit any w way give the united states the 11 satisfaction tg that at we demand it iri iq argued here that the great mass of the chilean people ore are ready ready to risk a harwi war with I 1 it the united states and that president preside A montt will not dare run counter to that feeling feeling by putting ins his country in the po position ai 0 of having been coerced b by the ile united lt states people here who are familiar with chilean affairs say that such a course would be fatal to the tile montt administration and the popular popular uprising which would follow aou would d sweep ee w it from power within a week sorow some ortho o who are closest to the president still assert that chile is only trilling linK with the united states for the purpose of or gaining time in which to make her preparations lor for war and ali these ebe g gentlemen C say that the tile sooner tl alio to president r qed ent insists it upon a peremptory reply as to her intentions gon ons in ili the matter the better it will be for the united states CHILEAN AGENTS ransacking europe for war material our navy department preparing washington WASHINGTO if ijan jan 18 the navy department is still the scene of great activity the secretary had hold frequent consultation consultations a with liis his bureau chief and the outward si signs agns gns denote that a great dea of work is b being done the greatest activity prevails in the bureau of naval intelligence the agents of which are said to have been at work on tile plan of the possible campaign besides collecting all imaginable in el vitiation litia tion from abroad through this bureau the secretary has kept himself thoroughly informed on the movements of the a agents ants of chile who it la is rumored have gr for some wine time been ransacking europe for war material the operations now being conducted by the depart anent are largely for tile purpose of ascertaining lust what the naval system can call accomplish just cimpl com s i in ili the event of hostilities george charge of chaffe the tile chilean legat ionin on 1 l washington vh ng ton during luring Balma cedas administration saya says the torpedoes shipped to chile alich which admiral walker cabled from lionte montevideo video were on their way to their destination were ordered by balmaceda during his big supremacy and raid paid for by thelt alie money ioney shipped from little in n the british manoi manof man of war they were in fit tended for operations against and not against the united states while he lie deprecates war lie sara says the chileans Chi leans will fight to the ia last 8 t extremity I 1 if f hostilities are once begun the english and german influence he lie thinka thinks will be brought to bear on chile chile in the Inte interest reit of PI peace ce T the lie statement that a lot of torpedoes was ordered before the tile trouble with this nation arose is corroborated by prominent officials at tho the war department who nay say that time haa has not elapsed since the beginning of the unpleasantness sufficient to allow of a contract for so many torpedoes ato to be closed and the tile goods to bo be finished and shipped A significant incident washington jan 18 what may be regarded as a significant incident was the receipt at army headquarters here today to day of a largo large number of of maps they wore were taken from front S surveys made in J 1887 87 and are said to the exact position of every forti fortified fled spot along the lie chilean Cli ilean coast general miles declines to discuss alio Cli ilean affair on oil the receipt of inapt A one of his aides captain maus said valparaiso is well fort for med tilled but in hiis his opinion the guns olour of our largest Yes vessels could silence the batteries in ili a short time captain maus iaus said the maps were sent merely that the officers might become acquainted with tile situation that army of officers heers all over the tile country are brushing up their knowledge of the chilean strength I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 seii 1 I Ss ii |