CHILIAN REBELLION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2249, 3 September 1891, Page 3

CHILIAN REBELLION.

London, August 30, Official telegrams confirm President Balmaceda’s defeat.

August 31. It is alleged that after the fight between the Chilian troops and the insurgents, the ambulance service was carried out in a disgraceful manner, and hundreds of wounded were left on the field. Foreign navy surgeons supplied the dificiency. Regiments encircle Santiago in order to prevent on irruption by outlaws and a repetition of the scenes enacted in Valparaiso. Two thousand additional troops will be despatched there to assist in maintaining order. The insurgents treat official prisoners well, and promise to give them a fair trial.

It is explained that the Espiegle was justified under the Admiralty rules in carrying treasure for any one. Further details of events in Chili show that the Chilian fleet had a splendid reception in the bay of Valparaiso. The troops behaved in an exemplary \ manner, and rioting was confined to the criminal classes. Their proceedings, however, were checked in the most summary manner. The foreign Admirals protected the Consulates, It is alleged that jealousy among President Balraaceda’s Generals ensured their defeat. The attack on the insurgents was conducted without any sort of plan. Don Vicuna, the President-elect, admits that the defeat of his party is absolute. It is believed that President .Balmaceda is escaping into the Argentine. The Treasury is empty, and the Junta are taking measures to secure the bullion put on board the Espiegle by President Balmaceda. The latest accounts state that President Balmaceda lost 1500 killed and that the same number were taken prisoners, with fourteen guns and two thousand rifles. The fighting was of a most desperate character. After it 1 became certainly known that the President had been defeated, the forts offered no resistance. Chilian bonds - have risen 6 per cent. Valparaiso, September 1. The Junta have removed from Iquique to Santiago. No foreigners were injured in the riots in Valparaiso. The foreign brigades have withdrawn to their ships. The editor of President Balmaceda’s paper has been shot for issuing a seditious pamphlet. The insurgent warships are pursuing the Government cruisers Condell and Imperial. ■ New York, Aug. 26. All the residents in the country around Valparaiso are flocking to the standard of the insurgents, who are victors of the city. The populace i welcomed the rebels with great enthusiasm, and the women showered flowers on the victors, loudly calling “ Viva Canto ” (the Peruvian General who is leading the insurgents.) A telegram in the New York Herald states that the strength of President Balraaceda’s army is 20,000 and that under General Canto 8000, but that the latter have fought like demons. The forts around Santiago have now been captured, and prior to the battle smart skirmishes took place with the insurgents, who hold the surrounding country, controlled* by the Santiago railway. *

It is reported that the insurgents have burnt the palace of Don Claudio Vicuna, the President Elect, who is believed to have fled to the German warship. August 31. Further details of the fight in Chili show that the loyalists at Flacilli lost 700 killed and 300 Q were made prisoners. The whole of the artillery were captured. The insurgents’ loss is estimated at 200 killed. The mob pillaged the rifles from the battlefield, and returned to Valparaiso where serious street fighting took place in which several persons were killed. Incendiary fires are also reported, but order whs restored. Santiago yeilded without bloodshed. Chilian stock has advanced on the European Bourses. September 1.

Herald’s despatches from Chili state that when the news of the Government defeat reached Santiago the mob bnrned the mansions of Balmaceda, Gobay, and other leaders, and the newspaper offices, but failed to discover Balmaceda, whom they desired to lynch. The City was panci-stricken and many fires broke out. Santiago was yeilded on Balmaceda’s advice.

Two hundred of the rioters in Valparaiso were shot by a volunteer guard, and order was then restored, but not till two million dollars-worth of property had been destroyed by the mob, which was composed of the lowest scum of the town, thieves, professional assassins, and other ruffians. The bodies of Barbosa and Alzarreca, the Government Generals killed in the battle, were sought out and mutilated.

Seven of the loyalist leaders took refuge on board foreign vessels. Some of the Government torpedo boats have surrendered to the insurgents.

The insurgent Junta are assuming entire control over the country.

Loyalist officers and members of the civil service have surrendered without conditions. The whereabouts of Balmaceda are unknown, but it is supposed he has escaped inland, and will hurry across the Andes.

The success of the insurgents is said to be largely due to a German army instructor.