THE WAR IN CHILI.
REPULSE OF THE PRESIDENT'S TROOPS. THE HORRORS OF THE STRIFE. Press A ssoeiation.—Electric Telraraph.-Coptrri<iht. Valparaiso, June 30. The President's troops attempted to penetrate into the province of Antacama, but were repulsed. New York, July l. Details of the war in Chili received here state that the crew of the torpedo launch Girelva plotted to desert, but one of their number refused to join, and informed the commander of the Government torpedo cruiser Lynch. He pursued and captured the deserters who were starved in filthy cells swarming with vermin before they were finally shot. Citizens who are suspected by the Santiago Government of a leaning towards the insurgents are made to walk on red-hob iron, and whipped in order to extort confession. There are 10,000 insurgents at Iquique waiting to march on Coquimbo.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8608, 2 July 1891, Page 5
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