Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific coast of South America, midway between Chile and Peru and separating Bolivia from the ocean, lies the ill-omened nitrate-pregnant area of Tacna-Arica...
Chile and Peru, despairing of ever holding a satisfactory plebiscite under these circumstances, appealed to the U. S. for mediation (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923, et seq.). As a result, first General Pershing and then General Lassiter were despatched to try and hold an impartial plebiscite. General Pershing returned broken in health and disgruntled at the fierce contention which he encountered. Last week the cables reported further disquieting news...
...Washington (TIME, May 17), which continue among the Chilean and Peruvian Ambassadors and Secretary Kellogg. The latest proposal to be seriously discussed was the creation of a Bolivian corridor through Tacna-Arica to the sea-Tacna-Arican territory north and south of the corridor to be held respectively by Peru and Chile...
Tacna-Arica. The Chilean Senate voted unanimously last week to demand fulfillment of the plebiscite to determine the sovereignty of Tacna-Arica (TIME, April 19 et ante) which is being desultorily proceeded with in that nitrate-pregnant region lying, as everyone knows, longitudinally between Chile and Peru and latitudinally between Bolivia and the Pacific Ocean...
...Peru, on the windswept Paracas peninsula, Dr. William M. McGovern, of London University, and Dr. Julio Tello, Harvard-educated Peruvian archeologist, gathered scattered bones, bits of pottery and building stone; dug six yards down and found the red porphyry walls and courtyards of a city of unknown extent dating to 1000 B. C. Burial caverns, scooped into solid rock like the interior of flat-bottomed water-bottles with yard wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco...