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President Augusto B. Leguia, hav-ing failed to attract American capital into his country overnight, has reverted to the last resort of the disappointed politician - muckraking. He accuses the Guaranty Trust Co., of Manhattan, of throttling Peruvian loans...
Unless the Peruvian Government or the Guaranty Trust Co. cares to issue further statements, the charges of President Leguia will be dropped without official action by Washington. The State Department hopes, however, that Senor Leguia will not renew his protest as, in that event, the U. S. Government would be obliged to issue a reply to his allegations...
...located in the Andes Mountains near Arequipa, at an altitude of eight thousand feet. Throughout a large part of the year the astronomical conditions in this high altitude are excellent, and the astronomers working at Arequipa have secured more than a hundred thousand photographs of southern stars. During the Peruvian summer; however, in the months from December to March, a heavily clouded season prevails. The continuity of the photographic record is then so badly interrupted that it has now been decided to test other sites in the hope of finding a favorable place that may be occupied during the cloudy...
...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...
...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...