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...case for Chile is that she favors a plebiscite, as laid down in the Treaty of Ancon which ended the War of 1879-1882, to decide whether Tacna and Arica shall be returned to Peru or remain under the sovereignty of Chile...
...case for Peru is that she claims that "the only just plebiscite, preserving the legal and moral interests of both Chile and Peru under the Treaty of Ancon, would be one which would reflect the conditions as to population prevailing in 1894." Continuing, the brief explains that the seizure of territory constituted " the greatest war indemnity the world has ever known." Peru claims, moreover, that the population of the two provinces was overwhelmingly Peruvian down to 1910, therefore "the plebiscite contemplated by the Treaty may for all practical purposes be regarded as having been held, and to have resulted virtually...
...Treaty of Ancon (1883, ratified in 1884) Peru lost forever the province of Tarapacá, but the provinces of Tacna and Arica were to be submitted to a plebiscite after a period of ten years had elapsed, and if the provinces were subsequently returned to Peru, that country was to pay Chile about $5,000,000. But when the time came to hold the plebiscite, Chile and Argentina were at loggerheads and Peru was convulsed with internal disorder over the election of a successor to President Morales Bermudez, who had suddenly died. Nothing could be done at that time...
Farnham Bishop 2G., of Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama, will deliver an illustrated lecture on "The Panama Canal," under the auspices of the Speakers' Club, in Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock...
...been chosen to speak on Commencement Day: in Latin, Edward Grotrian Schauroth, of Buffalo, N. Y.: in English, Jay Elmer Cates, of Vancouver, Wash., and William Kistler Huff, of Sellersville, Pa Commencement parts have also been assigned to Henry Adams Bellows 3G., of Boston, and Farnham Bishop 1G., of Ancon, Canal Zone...