The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-06
SOUTH AMERICAN DISPUTES WILL
 60 TO LEAGUE
Land Dispute Between Peru, Chile and Bolivia
 First Considered.

Buenos Aires, July e1The famous T1cna and Africa dispute involving Chile, Peru and Bolivia, is not the enly South American problem which may go before the League of Ma Hons for settlement. There has exist "a for years a controversy between Paraguay and Bolivia over a strip of orritory in the heart of South Amer lea as big as the state of California This. 1t Is understood, is on the pro- gram for consideration by the League.
 It Is probably not generally known that when the American peace ex- perts under Colonel House collect cd their data on world problems for usa at the Paris Peace Cor 'rreDce, they included report on the issues between Bolivia and Paraguay over Is called on Bolivian maps the Boil vfan Chaco and on Paraguayan maps the Paraguayan Chaco.
 The case of the Chaco is known to have been also brought before the conference by the Bolivian peace delegate. Senator Montes. It was.de- cdded, 1t is understood here. to post pone the question for early settle nrent by the League.
 These problems hold. for Bolivia, hemmed in on all sides by other states, 
 cal and commercial ambition, her Possession of. the port of Africa would give her an outlet to the Pa offHc, and, curious as 1t may seem, possession of the Chaco, or at least . part of ii, would give her egress to the Atlantic For the Chaco borders the great River Paraguay, afruent of the river Plate. and on the Chaco side of the river, 1000 miles from Buenos Aires, is a little port calied Bahia Negra- Here ocean steam ships from the United States and Europe could take on cargo trans ported across the northern edge of the Chaco fron th.. Bolivian mines axsd farms
 But in the year 1886, a few years after Bolivia had lost in war the Pa cffic port of Antofagasta and was turning her eyes eastward, Bahia Negra was seized by Paraguay and has been in her possession ever since. Paraguay, furthermore, made land allotments in the Chaco, whose un- surpassed pasture and great quebra- cho forests were beginning to attract the white man. A mysterious, unex- plored land, stretching northward from the Pi1comayo River on the Argentine border and westward from the River Paraguay into undisputed Bolivian territory, it has not been : directly crossed by white man since the days of the Spanish conquerors, since the year 154S to be exact. Ex- cept near the rivers. it is inhabited only by savage Indian tribes to this day, but both nations looked forward to its possibilities, which recently have included that of finding petro- leurn-
 Bolivia protested the seizure of Ba- 1 hia Negra and also made land al1ot- ments in the Chaco. It is true that Bolivia, had an ea1 ern outlet already by the River ParaG uay, but her com merce had to go through the Brazf- | Han River port of Corum1oa, a little north of Bahia Negra, moving dowr from the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz ! by mule team, along the northern edge of the ChacO, as it still does
 ID uphold their claims both gov ernments un earthed nnusty archive: in Madrid dealing with the expedi- tipns of the Spanish coruuerors and tho land grants of the Spanish Crow{ l i'm South America- Various dipIo- nrat1c negotiations have been iIitiat- cd between the two government. from time to time looking to divis ion of the territory, bat either O. Congress or the other refused to raI Ky the agreements which the ddpqD- :mnrs drew up-
 Xhe report of the American peacu 1HphrtB on the question was placet in oficia1 archives against the tim, wnaem the League of Nations wa: run6y to take thu matter up- Mucl
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