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...must confess to ignorance even of the geographical where about of Tacna Arica either one of them or both. One should know about such things, though, especially since the New York Times is going to such trouble to promote an interest in current events among effete and sophisticated collegians, and I shall go at 2 o'clock to Sever 11 to hear. Professor Backett explain the matter for the satisfaction and enlightenment of History...
John J. Pershing, General, U. S. A. retired, smiled last week without teeth. It was announced at the Walter Reid Hospital in Washington that he has in large measure recovered from the illness which forced him to return home from Chile, where he headed the Taena-Arica plebiscite commission. Following the extraction of his teeth, his blood pressure has fallen from 185 to 140 or 145 and the toxic poisoning has been reduced...
Salutes boomed across the harbor of Arica last week as the U. S. cruiser, Cleveland, slipped in between the Morro fort and the Chilean cruiser, Chacabuco, and landed Major General William Lassiter at the port-city of Tacna-Arica, where he is to succeed General Pershing as Chairman of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission (TIME...
...Weeks came over the mountains to Chile after his visit to the more southern countries, and was a quiet spectator at the Tacna-Arica tribunal being conducted under General Pershing. "Very little has been accomplished there to date," he said, "and General Pershing will undoubtedly return at least temporarily to this country...
...Created by the arbitral award of President Coolidge (TIME, March 16) to administer a plebiscite for the purpose of determining whether the once Peruvian province of Tacna-Arica, now a part of Chile, shall be returned to Peru. The plebiscite, should have been held in 1894, according to the Treaty of Ancon in 1884; but after decades of wrangling, Chile and Peru voluntarily admitted the hopelessness of trying to hold it themselves and referred the matter to the President of the U.S. Chile desires Tacna-Arica as a strategic "buffer province" to protect her valuable nitrate fields from Peru. Peru...