Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squadron will steam to Esquimalt, Vancouver and then south to San Francisco for Independence Day. This over, the Hood and Resolute will return via the Panama Canal to Plymouth, but the light cruisers will go to Callao, Peru, there to take place in the centenary celebration of the Peruvian Independence Day,* after which they will follow their big sisters home through the Panama Canal...
Presentation of the Chilean brief was made by Senor Don Beltran Mathieu (Chilean Ambassador to the U. S.) to U. S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, who represented President Coolidge. The case for Peru was presented by the Peruvian Chargé d'Affaires at Washington. Copies of both briefs (which consist of printed volumes of about 300 pages setting forth the arguments, and appendices containing copies of correspondence, other documents and maps) were handed over by the representatives of Chile and Peru for President Coolidge. Other copies were exchanged between the two litigants...
...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 in favor of Peru." It is also asserted that Chile had subsequently " destroyed the conditions for an honest plebiscite by artificially changing the voting population...
Thomas E. Duffy, American chemical engineer, prospecting in the desert of northern Chile, near the Peruvian border, found a great collection of Indian relics in tombs, including beautiful wood and stone carvings, statues of an unknown heavy wood, turquoise jewelry, hundreds of mummified bodies. Experts of the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, dated them provisionally...
Died. Marshal Andres Avelino Caceres, 87, twice President of Peru (1886, 1894), only Marshal in the Peruvian Army, at Lima...