New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-30
THE T4cNA-ARIcA DISPUTE,

W These TWO Peruvian provinces militarily occupied
by Gillian troops for twenty-five years, have been
The subject Of contradcting dispatches pun
lished in American papers. A Valparaiso cable dis
match said first that negotia tons with Peru, look
ing to definite settlement of pending disputes and
esnecia Iy Of the Tacna africa controversy, were
said TO have already begun, and that both republics
would soon appoint ministers mat information
was to he expected from A CHILEAN source which is
now often mistrusted by the people OF south
America The too acute Gillian diplomats and
ministerial papers announced that the Argentine
Cbiian convention. concluded under the auspices
and initiative OF the British minister at Santiago
and Buenos Ayres, had for its object not so much
the simultaneous disarmament of both repubhcs as
the promise by Argentina not to interfere win the
settlement OF pending questions between Chll and
BOLIVIA and Peru. But the government of General
President Roca refused to bind the Argentine
T,enilbIic 10 A policy which would permit Chilli
again to apply her motto, Might is right and TO
CONQUER finally what she has left OF Peru and
Bolivia Beaten on this ground, the Santiago
diplomats and papers said that the Argentines
recognize the treaties which had fixed the SOW
ereignty Of Bolivian-Peruvian districts Those
treaties however had not fixed anything of the
kind. The truce convention concluded with BOLIVIA
81, 1851 was 10 be changed in final treaty Of peace
after definite arrangement had taken place. rms
arrangement has not been attained yet, and Chilli
continues to occupy all the Pacific shore OF BOLIVIA
AS TO Peru. there in 1883 a real treaty signed
Al Ancon. 1t ceded to Chill the immensely rich
q L
10 occupy for ten years the provinces Of Tacna and
AFRICA 4 plebiscite was decide whether the
,,eone wanted TO return their mother country
Peru or accept the CHILEAN yoke AT the expiration
Of The ten years the Peruvian Government could not
obtain from Chill the that the plebiscite
should be held The Foreign Once OF Santiago
eyer found pretexts not comply with the Ancon
treaty; but in 1851 the Chians. fearing a war
with the Argentine Republic, and also that Peru
might side with the latter country, tried again 10
coax the Lima government, and a protocol
signed at Santiago declaring that the pebiscite
should he held promptly 10 decide the final
ereignty over the two Peruvian provinces That
protocol dated in 1885, approved by the gov
ernment and chambers of Peru. and also by the
Gillian Government and the Senate, but re-
jected by the Chamber after the war cloud between
Chill and Argentina had cleared away.
Now the Santiago diplomats would like 10 have
people. and especially the Argentnes, believe that
be settled The Peruvian Government, which has
so repeatedly opened negotiations to that effect is
sincerely anxious for a settlement. But IL cannot
after the many false demonstrations of Chill to
treaty Of 1889. accept the insnuation that it again
takes the initiative OF the negotiation. Therefore
IL known at Lima that the Val
paraiso dispatch above quoted had been published
~ the United States and In Europe the Peruvian
Government sent this denial:
The cable messages received here OF negotiations
between Chill and Peru TO solve the question of the
ownership OF the provinces of Tacna and AFRICA by
treaty Of alliance untrue. Since January, 1901
when the ChiIian Chamber rejected the Billing
hurstLa TORE protocol providing for the arbifrs-
been onened."