Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13
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lis Bad Luekgln the War with chilli.
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sad itinerary, oI, disasters has gone very
far, and the Sch of October, the I'd, 10Th,
and the 20lh of November, recording
the woflh dates, Of Angamos, Pisagua,
San Fratcisco, and Iquique, Will carry
down to posterity on the bronze tablets
Of History elluftbe following calamities,
The loss Of our naval power.
The loss Of oar best irohclads.
The loss offour Rear-Admiral Gau
and of our most, worthy sailors. s5
The loss Of the naval campaign.
The loas OF Psaetia. Vt ~
The loss of it's Notifications and artil-
lery.
The aoss OF many Of our soldiers,
woundedIot prisoners. 9W aYta8 s
The loss of a, military railroad fifty
miles long, with the important positions
Of Hospic,o, Dolores, Santa Catalina,
Aqua Santa, and among them the inn
pregnable and strategic nights OF San
Francisco.
The loss Of our ammunition, arma-
ments, and cannon.
The loss OF our depots Of provisions.
The los OF the first campaign by
land. .....t...5
The loss OF Iquique with It's fortifca.
tons aud artillery its twenty-six miles
Of railroad and its telegraphs.
And the loss OF Patillos with it's rail-
road and teleeraphs NJ far as Langunos.
All this means that we have suffered
Tho loss Of our territory 10 the 19th
degree Of latitude.
The loss Of moro than 1900 square
leagues of Peru's urea.
The oss Of the entire Department OF
Tarapaqa. ..-..#. .E.
The loss of nearly 100000 souls Of our
popn laiion.
The loss Of our railroads md tel :
graphs for over two hundred miles,
worth moe than twenty millions Of
hard dollars.
The loo of the three ports Of Patillos,
Tquique, Piaagua, and their correspond.
ing H. let's and smaller ports.
The loss of $4,000, 900 worth in hard
money ofnitrate factories.
The loss of $500 miles Of nitrate
hands, amounting TO G28, 000, 600, or 140,-
100000 nard dollars.
The loss OF our guano and nitrate rev.
enucs, netting 10000, 900 hard dollars
per annum; and lastly,
The loss OF the integrity Of our tori.
tory and of tho dearest rights Of Peru rs
an independent and sovereign nation,
Through all tho pores Of our organ.
1ation there flows tho blood OF our
shame and OF tho opprobrium which u
handful Of incompetent oilieials have
sact ON the Republic. a.'.,.
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The editor Of III Nacioldi Of Lima
gives, IL appears, in the enumeration Of
tho results which the War in the Pacific
has brought on Peru, only M far ~ tho
immediate consequence OF the battle Of
Dolores on tho 16th of November, such
m the occupation by Gillian arms Of
Iquique, Mollo, Pozo Alnionte' La
Noria, and adjacent country.
TO these results should be added
those of the subsequent military opera.
tons.
Tho battle of Tarapaca, on Nov. 27,
was bloody one for both armies, but
was very favorable for the CHILEAN
cause.
Twenty.three hundred Of our soldiers,
worn out by long march, hungry and
thirsty, nave compelled the enemy's
forces, almost three times their num-
Der, to abandon in great haste the po-
stions behind which they were in
trencho leaving behind them about
800 killed, and a large number wounded
and prisoners, besides their equipments
and II large portion Of their armament,
and to continue their flight through
rocky deserts, almost entirely devoid OF
tho necessary elements 10 sustain life.
AT the same time that our land forces
became masters of tho rich Depart
ment or Province OF Tarapaca, our ileet
extended its operations porthward, Ca
tablishing tho blocade 81 Africa, and
arc cruising between the ports of 1lo
and Mollendo, which greatly obsirueta
the supply Of provisions 10 the PERU
WAN troops quartercd in tho Depart,
ment or Province Of Moqucgua.
This uninternptodr series Of victories
for Chilli md OF reversed for our enc.
mics has gradually been preparing the
rupture OF the PERU Bolivian alliance
winch, as il il reasonable TO suppose,
must disappear before long,
The Peruvian Journals only speak OF
the Bolivians now, not as formerly, re-
lying OH their support, hut TO incrimin.
ate them more or less openly. For in
stance. H Nacio,.al of Lima contains tho
two following significant paragraphs,
'orhe Bolivian cavalry fed ~ the very
beginning Of tho attack ut Dolores" "0i
the Campero Division there is not a
particle Of news. II was never good for
anything. not even for the protection of
the herds OF cattle brought from the
Argentine for our army, which has been
constantly falling into the hands OF the
enemy
II is anaseertained act that the rem.
nants Of the Bolivian army after the
battle of Dolores deserted the Peruvi
ans and returned home.