, 1880-12-19
IMA'S DEFENSES.
Description Of Peru's Torpedo War
fare by Mr. Delgado, Who Has
Had q Hand in It.
Life in The Capital City-1he Expected Gillian
attack and What Wll Happen il It
Succeeds.

l. Delga1o, OF Lima, Ierl1, who Is we'll know
to American firms trading on the weste1
coast Of South America, being himself Il
= Peruvian representative Of the Philapelph
= house Of Fralick, Murphy & Co. Mr.. De
gallo, who is a native of Lima, was educate
, at Cambridge, Mass, is a civil engineer h
profession and the special study he has mad
OF explosives has been of great advantage I
h1s native country in its war with Chill
"When I left Lima on the 24th of las
month";" he said to World reporter VIII
met him on the steamer yesterday, 18th
Chl1lans had just landed force OF 1920 me-
at Pisco, which is port about 100 miles fror
Lima by land. The country between Pisc
and Lima is very bad, being mostly deser
plains with fertile valleys between them
The forces landed according to the Chilla,
accounts, include 10000 infantry, some cav
airy, and some field batteries, about fo,,rtee,
twenty transports which had landed thes.
troops. There were about rs many NOR,
men at africa, and the transports had gone
pack after them. We do not know Wha,
tn!t tnslr intentions 9te areEwhetner they will at
consume q months time, or whether they
will reGmbark and come north by water. O]
course Lima is their objective point. II thew
GENE n[n o by land we have sent down force o1
!
and impede their progress. Lima is well
defended and fortified, md an attack made
OIL our works will end
IN THE DEFEAT OF THE cJnL1Ays.
We shall act on the defensive, for to go ont
on on the plains "a, a1,d risk battle would, 7 think,
be unW1se: We have in Lima $1,000 troops
armed with the Peabody rifle, and besides
there are from COCO to 5000 National Guards,
men or citizen soldiers who drill every dav
ana @ are y armed % with Remington rifles. We
the city. These we are mounting in proper
positions, according to very careful plan.
me city Will be surrounded with breast
works, and it will be very hazardous for he
II Lima is one Of complete Satisfaction af
| the present state of affairs There is
! no apprehension that the city is to be
| taken by the invaders. The people are
| united in believing that, the war should
be- carried to successful termination, and
| any suggestion Of compromise now would be-
hooted down at once. The Chitians have
made very little progress really,-far less
than they pretended to have made and they
hght M very cautiously indeed. Considering
a very good showing against them. You
Tecollect the destruction Of their transport
Loa by a torpedo concealed in a fruit-boat,
winch was turned adrift In such a way as to
fruit from what appeared to be an ordinary
market-boat set Some clock-work in motion.
and when the 300 pounds of dynamite ex..
ploded the Loa was destroyed and sunk In
less than ten minutes.
TIE coRvET covADoyGA
1TS Was DESTROYED itl pretty much the same way.
BY the Chllian Admiral William Rebolledo
from the Spaniartls in 1866 He was Il, the
Esmeralda and hoisted the English flag, as
Taoagh he ~as il 6stEesg The Coyadnga
was near enough raking fire was opened on
prise. Well, the Covadonga was bombarding |
Gnaacay; small port about forty miles FROM !
# it was the gig Of the CAPTAIN OF the o bort rt
came out to her. The corvette, suspecting
something wrong, fired OIL the small boat. |
ad trS ayam e5ew asn[s at once umpsd overheard
launch after the boat They were : yery
cautious eau about it. for their Atlmirail
OF all a boa boats adrift. q Well, they passed
. a;d rope e. under It to see that it was really
calker to be sure that there was no false
bottom, and even then were not satisfied. but
had an engineer from the corvet 60 out and
look = the boat over. These doings were very
you: 70, Finally: they seemed to determine that
NE small boat was all right, and the launch
50ok her III tow to the side Of the coryet.
lhey attempted to hoist her up, but as soon
Is Is the ne Weigh5 Of the boat came On the rings
=auged, to break with certain weieht
snapped and 800 pounds of dynamite stowed
Il the alr-chanbers along each side of the
'oat exploited, and IN ten minutes the Cava-
lonEa ',,t g;a Was SUNK. ne men on shore hurried
'hlch we're out doing patrol duty, also !
lelped to pick up the 1nen III the water. |
nl ,at of 16o men on board about forty were
~'The raet a++omn+ +o ,,,o +h
WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL
t took place about twenty days before left
lima. The ironclad BEanco Eucalcda IS de-
aited to keep the blockade at CalIan. and
as an anchorage ground off the corner Of
ne re- lslaRa 81 nc. Of Pan Lorenzo, which forms one
ut to sea every night to be safe from any :
lght ATTACKS III small boats. Every morli-
II about O'Clock she returned 10 her buoy :
anchor for the day. Wearranged a sunken
q Two 1gats 1asteTed together
eco pounds Of black powder. Cl0ck-worF
as sett explode the mass at 9:30in the morn :
y, and at that time there was great crowd =
1ne ,ns shore ~ watching TIE vessel, expecting
1cho1ed III her old spot. But it seems that r
le Tide, which sets very strong at that point. =
Id carried the torpedo about half mia | /
ray, and all we had was very fine water
sea every night, but leaves several launches T.
patrol the anchorage ground. -
Inc Cnll1ars are very careful of those q
They have two of them, the Blan- II
, al ana It'll, the Adnlirai Cochrane. They are IL
NOR thinning down to five inches at the - -.
ds. They are really admirable vessels v
ley carry six guns ach,-N0-uounder Arm- ~ ~
ongs-so arranged that the guns NAV be g
ssel mar be going, Ia 70
THEY ARE VERY BAnrv uA~rr-1 -