Rpcoivcd TluirsCav, 7 p.m. SAXT1AGO, Feb. 18. The Chilean President, Senor Gabriel Gon/.alez Videla, forinallv establisheii today a second military base in the Antarctie in deliance of British protests. The Chilean Arniy Chief-pl'-StaJV. General Kanion ('anas Montalvn, was quoted in a dispateh from Grahani land as shying the aetion constituted a Step forward "in buiiding up Chile as a I'aeilic Power. A warning to foreign Powers that any attompt to seize Antarctie territory would l)e considered aggression againsi all the nations of the Am'ericas was given by President Gori/.alez Videla in a speeoh at Greenwieh Island yesterday, says the A.ssociated Press correspondent. "The bad habits of antupiated Ku ro pean linperialism threalen witli anned violenee to seize these lands of ours from Chile and Ameriea," said Seno: Videla. "Ameriea does not live today disarmed and disunited in sneh a way that aggressiori by the jtower of an outside eontinent ean eonie about. Tho.a* who are ruled by the nervous'.strain of a-eonvulsed Kurope, tcainpling the prin eiples of the Cnited Xations ('barter and Ameriean and international l:iw, must remember this and weigh eare. fully that such aggressions are ainied against all the nations of the Americas. ' '
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