Foreign News: Plebiscite

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...

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