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Every few hours last week either the Government of Colombia or the Government of Peru would announce that a skirmish had been fought, a river gunboat bombed or an airplane shot at in the vicinity of Leticia, the remote, malarial jungle town on the upper Amazon ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922, seized by Peruvian irregulars last September, squabbled over ever since (TIME...
...fleet which Colombia sent 5,000 mi. around the turnip-shaped top of South America and up the River Amazon (TIME, Feb. 6) lay anchored all last week off Tabatinga, a Brazilian port only five miles from Leticia, the port which Peruvian irregulars seized from Colombia last September and which Colombia intends to repossess...
...terrifically hot up there on the Amazon River!" cried Dr. Uribe Echeverri. "There is always the danger of fever. Our fleet cannot stay anchored indefinitely...
...Saloman-Lozano Treaty of 1922, Peru ceded to Colombia a "Corridor to the Amazon" at the tip of which is Leticia...
...Preparations for an offensive war were initiated by Colombia, and the advance of her flotilla on the Amazon constitutes the beginning of an aggression which we cannot regard with equanimity...