The Chilean Government issued a decree yesterday claiming large Area in the adjacent Antarctica and moted the availability of mineral claimed west longitude, which includes Little America. Bellinghausen Sea, Charcot and Alexander Lands, Adelaine and Biscoe Islands, Graham Land, Pla-mer Archipelago, South Shetlands and Ross Islands, Erebus and Terror Gulf, Elephant Islands and part of the Weddell Sea.
After summarizing foreign claims on several Antarctic zones, the decree recalled that the United States had made no claims of sovereignty in the area. The decree said that the "U.S. twice had informed Chile that its activities in the Antarctica were only scientific.
The decree pointed out that there were large coal reserves in the Antarctica, and also possibly some Loi] and gold.—United Press.
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