The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-08
THREE-.SIDED WAR LIKELY
Chilli, PERU And 4RGENTINE PR E.
P4RING FOR HOSTILITIES.


ChiIps Continued Occupation of Pc
ruytan Provinces, Taken During the
yvar AGAINST Peru and Bolivia, the
Cause-Chili Charged with Breaking
One of the Provisions of the Convene
tion.
Valparaiso, Chill, Aug. 21.-A three
sided war is threatened between Ar
sentine, Peru and Chill and all on ac-
count of the Tacna-Arica question
which has remained in abeyance since
the treaty of Ancon, which terminated
in 1884 the victorious war of Chill
against Peru and Bolivia. 1t was
agreed, then, that the victor was to
occupy the Peruvian provinces of Tao
ma and africa for ten years, after which
plebiscitum was to declare whether
those provinces wanted to be incorpor-
ated with Chill, or return to Peru. The
date passed off however without a
plebiscitum being taken. In 1888, the
Billinghurst-La Torro protocol was
signed. at Santiago, and approved py
the Chilian senate. So, Chilli peace
fully arranged her dispute with Argen-
tine: and her chamber of deputies dld
NOT even discuss the question of the
protocol. which being approved only by
the senate remained dead letter.
The question of the final ownership
of Tacna and africa has thus remained
unsettled and Chill still occupies the
provinces, with the deliberate inten-
ton, according to many Gillian pa
pers, and political speakers, of keeping
them forever
Peru makes an appeal to arbitration
in order to settle peacefully the final
ownership of these provinces. And
here comes the point where the United
States and the Argentine republic are
dragged into the dispute. The United
States government having invited all
the Spanish American countries to
participate in the second Pan American
congress- to be held at Mexico, in Oc-
tober, 1901, must have been surprised
to receive from the Chilian government
a conditional acceptance, Chill, being
aware that the congress was to pro-
claim arbitration as the only method to
settle international differences on this
continent, answered that it would send
representatives TO the congress only on
condition that arbitration should apply
exclusively to future disputes The ac-
@
pointed out, would leave Chill free to
act as she pleases toward the annexa-
ton of Tacna and africa and to estab-
lish in America the people of territorial
conquests al a consequence of war
After having said that Senior Vicuna,
the Chilian minister at Washington,
had obtained from Secretary Hay a
declaration that the United Sta tes
would not interfere in affairs on the
Pacific, the Chilian papers admitted
later, that their former information
might not be correct. And, further, all
kinds of specula tions have been indulg-
ed In and the discussions about the
United States have been as active as at
the time when the American sailors of
the Baltimore were murdered in the
streets of Valparaiso
Meanwhile, the people of Argentina
began TO fear that the Chlians would
no accept the decision about the Chilli
Argentina frontier limit question.
which had been submitted to the ar
bitration of Queen Victoria. And, as
if to support and Justify their fears 1t
is reported that the Chilian govern
ment has trespassed upon the rights of
the arbitrator and imposing the obliga-
ton of limiting the award to such and
such points.
No wonder that, amid this mess of
the governments are making
tions for war While Chill has |
sent to Germany her favorite general, |
Korner, to buy guns and cannons, Peru /
has despatch on similar errand her (
former president, General Caceres; /
and the Argentine republic is drilling
its national guard. II addition there is
about to be instituted in Chill compul- !
sorry military service, and the regretta-
ble system of armed peace may be in
flicted upon the republics of South
America as result of the fact that
Chilli holds over them a sword of Da-
nocles through her unwillingness to
settle finally the old question of Tacna
and africa.