Bisbee daily review., 1916-12-31
SOUTH AMERICAN
 WAR IS PROPHESIED
 BY LATIN WRITER'S
Uruguay Is Called the Serbia or South America, Which Will Set All Tearing at the Threats of Others.

SANTIAGO, Chile,-The failure of the proposed A. B. c. conference. which was to have met in Rio de Ja- neiro on November 18th, has prompt ed editorial comment throughout the entire continent and the echo is yet reverberating.
 pr. Lauro Muller, the Prime Minis ter of the Brazilian cabinet, is said to have invited the Chilean and Argen- | tine governments to send delegates to a conference to be held at Rio de Ja- neiro on November 15, the twenty-sec- ond anniversary of the proclamation of the republic of Brazil.
 | The exact purpose of the gathering was not made public, but it was un- l derstood that Dr. Muller desired the nations named to enter into a peace pact binding each to submit to arDitra 1 ton any dispute and in any event to wait a year before resorting to arms. The republic of Chile accepted the in- vitation as did the Argentine tenta lively. 4 change of government in the latter country came before the date of the suggested meeting and the new foreign minister strongly op- posed the plan. As it was necessary | for the Argentine congress to ratify the proposal, and as they failed to do so, Brazil was notified that her neigh bor would not participate. Chile then withdrew her acceptance.
 The most radical comment on the affair was published a few days ago in a Chilean journal of socialistic ten dencies. Under the caption, "Uru- quay the Serbia of South America, the writer claimed that a general South American war was as inevitable as had heen the great European con fiict for years before the flare of Aug ust, 1914 Argentine will never agree to a peace pact with her neighbors while the matter of the La Platte boun daTy line is in dispute said the au- thor. This line runs in mid-channel where the river, between 40 and at places 50 miles wide. separates Uru- guayan from Argentinian territory.
 The Argentine government has spent immense sums in dredging the river from it's mouth off the port of Monte Video to point opposite Bue- nos Aires, a distance of nearly 200 miles, in order that large ocean steam CTS might continue to dock in the Argentinian metropolis. A series of islands once claimed by Uruguay are now held on the other side to be Ar gentinian because of the great eXpen- diture in improving the river channel. This, together with boundary dis pute between Brazil and the Argen- 1 tine has, according to the Chilean author, made the relations between the three countries somewhat uncer- | tain.
 The views of this writer are in no way substantiated by public opinion throughout South America, but there i is a widely expressed and almost unanimous view that the A. B. C. means nothing and is an impractical scheme not workable in either South Central or North American relation ships. The smaller countries object to the implied leadership of which the plan carries for the Argentine, Brazil or Chile, and ask why the A. B. c. does not as logically spell Argentine Bolivia and Colombia. The scheme of the American State Department for the establishment of permanent peace in South America finds little welcome in the newspaper columns or chancel leries of the southern continent.