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Professor Eugene Wambaugh '76 formerly Langdell Professor of Law at the University, has been engaged by the Peruvian Government as special counsel during the plebiscite which will settle the Tacna-Arica territorial dispute, a controversy o flong standing between Chile and Peru. He has already left for Lima where he will join his daughter, Miss Sarah Wambaugh, also an adviser to the Peruvian Government...
There is a little strip of territory between Peru and Chile, called Tacna-Arica, which both countries claim and nobody really owns pending a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge as arbitrator. If there is any man who really rules the little strip it is General John J. Pershing, President of the Plebiscite Commission, who is sitting tight in the little town of Arica...
Last week in the town of Arica, capital of the Chilean Province of Arica, began the last act of the drama called the Tacna-Arica dispute-a dispute to which Peru and Chile are parties...
Precisely what occurred was the opening session of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission, General John J. Pershing in the Chair; Señor Agustin Edwards,* head of the Chilean delegation, in another chair; Señor Freyre, head of Peru's delegation, in a third chair. They had assembled to decide the terms under which a plebiscite, ordered by Arbitrator Calvin Coolidge (TIME, Mar. 16), is to be held to decide the future sovereignty of the Provinces of Tacna and Arica, wrested from Peru in the War of the Pacific...
Panama. At Cristobal in the Panama Canal Zone, the arrival of U. S. General John J. Pershing, traveling as President of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Commission (TIME, Mar. 16, 23, 30), was enthusiastically signalled. Later, the General went to the city of Panama, paid his respects to President Rodolfo Chiari who was in mourning for a near relative. General Lassiter, Panaman soldier, gave a reception in honor of his U. S. comrade...