Excerpt from The Treaty of Ancon in the Light of International Law The war of the Pacific started with the most flagrant violation of International Law, namely, the occupation of the Bolivian coast on the 11th of February, 1879, and' the breaking out of hostilities against Peru when the latter proposed to Chile the arbitration established in the treaty of 1875. The inflexible logic of evil led Chile to violate in the prosecution of the war, not only the rules of international law but the most elementary principles of the Christian civilization. The war, which had no cause other than to despoil Peru and Bolivia of their principal riches, ought, according to Chile, to be waged by extreme and Vio lent means, and procuring, at any rate, not the vic tory which is the licit end of the struggle but the destruction and the annihilation of Peru. This affirmation is confirmed not only by the testi mony of the neutral historians such as Markham and Caivano but also by the testimony of the Chilean historians, and principally by the documents collected by the assiduity of the Chilean historiographer Ahumada Moreno. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.