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...limitation of armaments negotiations seem to be on the point of breaking down, owing to the hostility of Argentina. The Expounding Secretary, Antonio Huneus, Chili, brought forward the recommendations of the Armaments Committee which provide: that the question of the limitation of armaments of South America be solved through separate negotiations between the interested nations; that the Governments declare their desire for immutable peace and against armed peace; that they adhere to the Washington naval treaties, fixing the tonnage of capital ships and establishing immunity for neutral merchant ships from submarine attack; that they adhere to the various international conventions...
Within less than six months of the earthquake and tidal-wave catastrophe in Korea comes the fearful shock in Chili, destroying whole towns, cleaving the very bed of the Pacific to such extent that the sucked-in water receded more than three hundred yards from the shore-line...
...first of these will be Professor J. Bravo Labarca, of the Commercial Institute of Valparaiso, Chili. He will deliver two lectures on April 3 and 5, his subject being "The Recent Diplomatic and Political History of Chili." Professor Labarca has been sent to this country by the Chilean government to study the courses in commercial education in the United States. During his stay here he will visit the various educational institutions...
Passing from the dangerous, rock-bound coast to the plains of the interior, the tourist comes upon the great nitrate beds, which furnish the chief income to this otherwise unproductive country. The export of nitrate is enormous and was the chief cause of the late Chili-Peruvian...
Travelling north from Chili, Professor Brewster entered the tin-producing region of Bolivia with its picturesque adobe houses, hilly cities, and gaily clad women selling their wares in the streets at remarkably small prices. Here the Hamas, small camels which have been domesticated since the time of the Incas, do all the draught work and haul the orange-laden wagons across the plains...