CHILEAN PRESIDENT LANDS

Chronicle (Levin), 19 February 1948, Page 5

CHILEAN PRESIDENT LANDS

Roccivod WcdiH'sdav, 7 p.m. XE \V YOKK, l-'ob. 17. Tlie Cliiloan President, Gabri"1 Yiilela, laadcd a! Sovereignty Ua.. A ntan-t ica, today from the Xavy tranpori 1'resiilente I'iato, tr> elaim pei soaallv toi- Cliile thes Aiitan-tii- landliou in dispute with Britain. A 21-gun salute was fired from the tnrpsport n.» Gonzalez was weh'omed by nieinbers of tlie garrison who had been at the lia--" xim-e last vear. A guard of konon.eoinprisiiig Chilean Xavy cadels wlio made tl.ie cniise with ihe President, sahited as lie stepped ashore. J'resi dent Gonzalez is aceonipanied hv his wife, two danghlers and Defence Mliiister, Mannel Buliies. His lirst ari ashore was to dccoratc memhers of ti'-.-garrison wilh the order of inerit. lie theu unveiled a hust of the Chileau na\al hero Arturo Prnl. The Domninnder-in-Chiof of the Chilean Xuvv, Vice- Admiral Emilio Daroeti. made a specch. Xeitlier the Presidem lior Paroeh niontioned the British -Minister of State, Mr. Hector .MeXeil'wnrning that Britain would not lolerat--!tilitional arts of trespass by Cliile •. •A-rgeiit-intt. The presidential party wili hoard the frigate Covadonga tomorrow for the jouraey to the ti|i of Graham Land now ehristened hy Cliile U'llig gin.-' Land in lionour of Cliile 's lirst Presideiit. The party will land -it Pueito Covadonga wliere Gun/alez w ill . plant the Chilean flag and his own pei j sooal pennant, then formallv delivei Beinardo O'lliggins' hase to Lieut. i ' 'ommander Krneslo Gonzalez, liead of 1 ihe Chilean Antarctie expedit ion. j ll is ofiieially announeed in Buenns j Aires today that the Argentine Presi j dent, .luan Peron, heeause of pressure |

of business, will he ttnahle to joih President Gonzalez (Cliile) in Cap Horn waters to reassert Argentine arai Chilean claims in Antarctica. Therc liave heen persislenl reports of a presidential meeting in southern waters wliere Argentine and Chilean navftl I'orees are at present stationed.