Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-10
APPEAL BY CHILE
IN AFRICA MIDDLE
MAY DELAY CRISIS
Plea to Coolidge, Reported
Agreed, Approved by AM
basSadOr Here.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
The appeal of the Tacna-Arfca uues-
ton TO President Coolidge as arbitra-
tor. which was reported agreed on
Yesterday. would, in the opinion of
Chilean Ambassador Matthew, he a
possible means of holding the crisis
at africa in abeyance until the new
government of President Figueroa
takes charge OF Chilean affairs on De-
cember %. and for the period which
may follow the Inauguration and the
taking Of affairs over by the new ad-
ministration.
DIR. Matthew. who is to be the for
eisn minister of the new cabinet. has
definitely decided to sail for Chile on
the steamship Ebro December 80. He
Will arrive in africa about January -
and will have Il few hours conference
with Chilean Commissioner Edwards
ana Gen. Pershing. He plans to CON
tlhue south on the Ebro arriving in
Santiago about January IS.
Embassy Ignorant of Plan.
The Chilean embassy has as yet re-
celFed no information from Santiago
that appeal would be made TO the ar
tion that this might be the course
pursued. The Ambassador. however,
is in close communication with San.
uago and does not anticipate that any
thlng VIII be done without his being
advised. He does not either discount
or express surprise at the information
from africa of a possible appeal.
The Ambassador was asked regar rCf-
ing the reported possibility that Mr..
Edwards would be named to succeed
him as Ambassador here. He said that
1t was extremely unlikely that Mr..
Edwards had been offered this post
by the present government, which
goes out of office December %, and
felt sure that if President Figueroa
has made such an offer to Nr. Ed
wards on the part Of the new govern
ment Ambassador Mathieu. as the
foreign minister-designate would have
been advised.
Sees Aide Promoted.
When the Ambassador leaves he
expects that Federico Agacio, the
counselor of the embassy, will become
charge d'affaires. Francisco Cruchaga-
TocOnal the Chilean Minister to Lon
don, who is in Washington, has re-
manned here for the past three months
at the request of Ambassador Matthew
as his legal adviser in the Tacna-
africa developments. but has no Off
cial standing before the Washington
Government. While he probably will
continue to have close contact with
he Santiago government in the Tacna-
africa matters 50 long as he remains
here, any representation which may
be made TO President Coolidge in the
plebiscite question will, the Ambassa-
dor thinks, be handled by Lansing
and Woolsey, who represented Chile
in the presentation of their original
case.
Chiles reported decision to appeal
to Mr.. Coolidge arbitrator in the
diSputS was announced yesterday after
the commission, set up in his award to
carry out its terms for the determina-
tion of sovereignty, approved the mo-
ton of Gen. Pershing, it's head, for
fixing the dates for a plebiscite.
At the same time the commission
rejected the Chilean motion in the
matter. and thus apparently left an
appeal by that nation to President
Coolidge as the only course open to
ii under terms Of the award providing
for such an appeal.
Little Surprise Felt
AS the logical step for Chile i'll the
differences which have persisted and
which have caused her delegates to
absent themselves from the sessions
of the commission, the reported plan
to appeal has caused little surprise
i'll Washington. Observers in official
quarters here, in fact, have expressed
themselves as at loss to understand
why Chile, in view Of the importance
she necessarily attaches to the matter.
has not availed herself of the appeal
provision before this.
Naming April 10 as the date for
voting in the plebiscite, Gen. Per
shing's motion fixes January 10 as
the date for the presentation of the
election law, with intervening dates
for the period of registration and for
Chile Is Assailed.
Recurring Chile TO give definite
answer whether she will carry out
unfulfilled demands of the commission
and faithfully cooperate in holding
the plebiscite, Gen. Pershing'S mo-
tion charges in its preamble that
Chile has unIawfully administered the
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