International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

No. 551. Mr. Christiancy to Mr. Blaine .

y suspicions were correct. The mask has now been completely thrown off. The Chilian papers, both in Chili and Peru, openly declare this as the intention of the Chilian Government; and the military officers here openly declare the same thing. Colonel Lagos, the commander of the Chilian forces here, had made an arrangement with the provisional government of Francisco Garcia Calderon, to allow his government the control of the custom-house in the northern ports of Peru, to enable him to support his government, and the right to send some 500 or 600 soldiers to the northern towns to enforce his aut…