An item referred to the American newspaper New-York
Herald which reported that according to tidings received from Valparaiso
two German navy officers (1) the evening before were offended between Valparaiso, Chile
and Santiago, Chile. It was claimed that was
caused by the large number of refugees taken on board of the German warship Leipzig. The German
admiral complained and the municipality promised to do anything to prevent that
those offences would happen again.(2)
Notes
1. Flush-decked corvette, laid down at the shipyard of
AG Vulkan, Stettin with yard number 72 in 1874, launched on 13 September 1875,
commissioned on 1 June 1877, modified at the Imperial Dockyard at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany between 1885-1888, stricken on 27 August 1894, converted
into an engine hulk at Wilhelmshaven and finally sold to be broken up in the
Netherlands on 7 June 1907.
2. After 1848 were Germans in huge numbers
immigrated to Chile firstly
in the area between Valdivia and Puerto Montt, South Chile
later also around Temuco, Santiago. Between 16 January and 18 September
1891 was in Chile
a civil war going on. 
