Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-29
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Join PEACE PACT
Liberia and Peru Formally
AGhere-0thers Announce
Intention.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The State Department announced
today that Peru and Liberia had off,
cially adhered to the Kellogg treaty
and that Denmark. Bolivia and Austria
had informed the United States OF
their intention to adhere.
The Ambassador for Peru. Herman
Velarde. i'm a note to Secretary KEEL
loge, said the position taken by the
American State Department in having
initiated the negotiations of multi
lateral treaty renouncing war. would
be for all time a legitimate source
of pride to the great nation OF the
United States of America"
I'm falfillment of the express instruc-
tons of the President. Mr. Augusta 3.
Leguia, and of his government. hasten
to express to your excellency that Peru,
formally, and with sincere enthusiasm,
adheres to the anti-war pact" said the
note, and that as soon as a certified
copy thereof shall have been received,
1t will be submitted to the cognizance
of the national Congress for ratifica-
ton.
Peru, who has ever been partisan
of cordiality and peace in international
relations and who aspires, therein. to
nothing more than to the predominance
and triumph of Justice, cannot remain
Indifferent to the position taken which
the signing of the pact referred to I'M
plies for the progress of mankind
Il would therefore request your eX-
cellency to be so good as to consider
Peru and its government as adhering
to the transcendenta& treaty in ques-
ton"
All Nations Invited.
In keeping with the spirit of the ne
yotiations which resulted IN the treaty,
invitations have been placed by Ameri-
can diplomatic representatives before
10 governments other than those powers
which already have signed Those In
vited include every sovereignty of con-
sequence except Russia, which has been
oidden by France to join
The American invitation said:
THE United States has been anxious
from the beginning that no state should
feel deprived of an opportunity to par
ticipate promptly i'll the new treaty and
thus mot only Ign itself formally and
solemnly with this new manifestation
of the popular demand for world peace,
out also avail itself of the identical
benefits enjoyed by the original sigma
tories.
Accordingly, In the draft treaty pro-
posed by it. the United States made
specific provision for participation II
che treaty by any and every power de-
string to identify itself Herewith, and
this same provision is found in the
definltiye instrument signed in Paris"
Several Countries Send Word.
Declaring that several expressions of
intention to sign have already reached
Washington, the invitation said that
this convincing evidence of the world
vide interest and sympathy which the
new treaty has evoked Is most crafty
ing to all the governments concerned"
While these invitations were being
delivered several countries III the old
world and the new extended themselves
to be among the first To add approval
after that OF the powers Jugoslavta
was first to follow the original | s, when
Foreign Minister Marinkovitch signed
the pact Just Is minutes after receiving
the official invitation
From Havana came the word that
Cuba intends To be the FIRST Latin
American country 10 sign The formal
day
At the same hour the Bolivian lega-
lion In Washington announced that
Bolivia was one OF the nations which
had notified Secretary Kellogg of It's
intention to adhere Ia the pact.
The Peruvian governments notiflca-