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Following the failure of the Pan-American Conference at Santiago, Chile (TIME, Mar. 10, 1923) to settle upon a plan of naval disarmament, South American republics began to arm, concentrating upon their navies...
...drop of blood was shed during this unusual Latin American rev- olution. The streets of Santiago, capital city, were quiet. The only flutter of excitement was caused by the publication of the following proclamation of the militants...
Admiral Eberle knows full well what the loss of the Panama Canal in war-time would mean. In 1898 he was aboard the Oregon on her famous run around the Horn to join Admiral Sampson against the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba. Since then he has been twice around the world in the line of duty: once with the Atlantic Fleet on its circumnavigation in 1908, again in command of the gunboat Wheeling. Six months ago he was appointed Chief of Naval Operations. Now the umpires come to him with the verdict: "The Canal is wrecked; the fleet is wrecked?...
Then came another war. The San Francisco Chronicle sent him to Cuba as correspondent in the Santiago campaign. He was wounded, contracted a fever, but had hardly grown well when he started for South Africa and the Boer War. It was from that time that his close friendship with Lord Kitchener was said to date...
Colonel Furlong will, with the aid of slides, describe his travels in Chile. He will show the picturesque coast towns, the city of Valparaiso, and fascinating Santiago; and tell of life on a Chilean farm...