Show passage over Ove andes great greaf Mili military fary feat the trip across the andes from santiago or valparaiso chile to buenos alres aires costs almost as much as a steamer passage from one of the south american ports to europe and serious political cons consequences consequent equen ces have resulted the argentine Is in much closer touch with the european continent i than its neighbor chile and although the argentine boundary is only seven hours from santiago the man in the streets in chile looks upon the wide pampa beyond the andes as a distant foreign country the narrow gauged cogwheel track climbs butof out of the green chilean valley up to the pass following the course of the Acone agua river from the train window we can see the camino do de too andes wending its way among the lofty peaks in older times this was the only route through the mountains find and it was over this narrow path tha gen jose de san martin the hannibal of the andes marched his army to the battle of chacabuco Cha cabuco in 1817 that freed chile from the spanish yoke military writers rank this achievement with cannibals Hanni bals and napoleons march over the alps but when one reflects that the pass of little slber st bernard that hannibal used and the pasa pas of great st bernard that napoleon used are only half as high as the Uepa llala pars para that san martin had bad to negotiate one is inclined to rate his performance even higher moreover san martin was fighting for right and freedom whereas hannibal and napoleon were waging wars of conquest and were abt seeking such impersonal ends as was the great argentine leader whose achievement la one of the greatest in the history of democracy dr max jordan tn in berliner Tage blatt living age |