The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-02
WHAT WAR MEANS To TRH CON.
-t QBERED. :.
A Peruvian Journal,s Lament Owe
the Disasters Of Forty Days.

In the brief period OF forty days tht
sad itinerary of our disasters has gon,
very far, and the 9th of October, the I'd
10Th and Goth Of November recording the
woeful dates of Angamos, Pisagua, Sar
Francisco and Iquique, will carry down
to p0sterity on the Bronze tablets of his
tory all of the following calamities:
The loss of our naval power.
The loss of our best ironclads.
| The loss of our Rear Admiral Grau and
of our most worthy sailors. 't'.I
| The loss of the naval campaign.
The loss of Pisagua.
The loss of its fortifcations and artil
lery.
The loss of many of our soldiers, wound
ed or prisoners.
The loss of q military railroad Fifty
miles long, with the important positions
of HospiciO, Dolores, Santa Catalina
Aqua Santa and among them the i'm
pregnable and strategic heights Of San
Francisco. Lin.
The loss Of our ammunition, armam,
ents and cannon. .-ar r5IG
The loss of our depots and provisions.
The loss of the first campaign by land
The loss of Iquique with its fortica.
tions and artillery, its 26 milesof railroad
and its telegraphs.
And the loss of Patillos with its rail
roads and felegraphs as far as Lagunos.
All this means that we have suffered
The loss of our territory to the 10th
degree of latitude.
The loss Of more than 1900 square
leagues Of Peru's area. Id,
The loss of the entire department Of
Tarapaca.
The loss Of nearly 100000 souls Of our
population.
The loss Of our railroad and tele-
graphs for over 200 miles, worth more
than twenty millions of hard dollars.
The loss of the three ports of Patillos,
Iquique, Pisagua and their correspond
ing inlets and smaller ports.
The loss of $20, 100000 worth in hard
money in nitrate factories
The loss of $500 miles of nitrate lands
amounting to 92S, 900, 900, or lao, ,0O0, 900
hard dollars.
The loss of our guano and nitrate rev.
enues, netting 100000 hard dollars
per annum, and, lastly,
The loss of the integrity Of our terri
tory and of the dearest rights of Peru as
an independent and sovereign nation.
Through all the pores Of our organiza-
tion there flows the blood of our shame
and of the opprobrium which handful
of incompetent officials have cast on the
Republic.
From statemento Of the Chilian Minister Of War !
The editor of El Nacional Of Lima
gives, in the enumeration Of the results
which the war in the Pacific has brought
on Peru. 0nly as far as the immediate
consequence Of the battle of Doloresson
the 10Th Of November, such as the otcu-
patton by Chilian arms of Iquique, Molle,
Pozo, Alamonte, La Noria, and adjacent
country. g..
To these results should be added those
Of the subsequent military operations.
The battle Of Tarapaca, on November
9th, was a bloody one for both armies,
but was very favorable for the Chilian
cause.
Twenty-three hundred of our soldiers
worn out by a long march, hungry and
thirsty, have compelled the enemy's
forces, almost three times their number,
to abandon in great haste the positions
behind which they were entrenched,
leaving behind them about eight hun
dred killed and large number wounded
and prisoners, besides their equipments
and large portion of their armament,
and to continue their fight through
rocky deserts almost entirely devoid Of
the necessary elements to sustain life.
At tho same time that our land forces
became masters of the rich department
or province of Tarapaca, our fleet ex-
tended its operations northward, estab-
fishing the blockade of africa, and are
cruising between the ports of lilo and
Mollendo, which greatly obstxucts the
supply of provisions to the Peruvian
troops quartered in the department or
province of Moquegua.
This uninterrupted series of victories
for Chilli and of reverses for our enemies
has gradually been preparing the rupture
of the Peru Bolivian alliance which, as it
is reasonable to suppose, must disappear
before long.
The Peruvian journals only speak of
the Bolivians now, not as formerly, rely
Ing on their support, but to incriminate
them more or less openly. For instance,
Ell Nacional Of Lima contains the two
following significant paragraphs: "The
Bolivian cavalry fled at the very begin
ming of the attack at Dolores" 'Of the
Campero Division there is not q particle
Of news. 1t was never good for anything,
not even for the protection of the herds
| pf cattle brought from the Argentine for
STR army, which have been constantly
falling into the hands Of the enemy"
1t is an ascertained fact that the rem
nants of the Bolivian army after the bat
tie of Dolores deserted the Peruvians and
returned home.
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