Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-18
Terms Announced by Presi-
dent Hoover Result of KeI-
logg Suggestion Last Year.
100000 AND OTHER
CONCESSIONS MADE
Conclusion of 46-Year Controversy
Leaves Bolivia Without Desired
Access to Sea.

By the Associated Press.
Tacna and africa, which have been
called the Alsace-Lorraine Of South
America, are to be divided.
After As years of international con-
troversy, Chile has agreed to return
Tscna to Peru while retaining africa.
The agreement was reached through
direct negotiations made possible by the
resumption of diplomatic relations be-
tween the two government last year at
the suggestion of former Secretary
Kellogg.
AS announced by President Hoover,
not as arbiter in the dispute, but at
the request of the two governments,
The agreement does not mention the
demand for a route to the sea which
has been pressed by Bolivia, land
locked since the Chilean victory in the
war of the Pacific which lost Tacna
to Peru.
Bolivia and Peru were allies in that
contest. and the announcement OF the
agreement between Chile and Peru
brought a statement from the Bolivian
legation that the questions involved
were still far from settled"
Peru to Get $4,000, 900.
Chile. under the agreement, will pay
Sc 100000 to Peru and, while retaining
the port of africa will construct port
for Peru on the Bay of africa. In adj
dition. Peru will receive, without cost,
all public works already constructed in
Tacna, and Chile will retain the africa
Tacna Railroad.
Both have agreed to respect private
rights in the two provinces and to
recognize children born there as having
the nationality of their parents until
they are 81. when they will have the
right to choose for themselves the ma
ton to which they will swear allegiance.
They also are to erect monument on
the promontory of Ariac-El MORO de
Arica-to the memory of those who fell
in battle there during the war in which
they were engaged.
Tacna is to be delivered to Peru with
in 80 days, and any disagreement in
establishing the boundary between the
two provinces is to be settled by an ar
bitter to be appointed by President Hoo
yer. q.
Immediately after yesterdays an
nouncement, the Bolivian legation is
sued a statement which said the entire
question was far from settled, and 1t
will not be unless the land-locKeo con-
ditions in which Bolivia had endured
national life since the war of 1879, is
changed"
Hoover Assistance Offered.
President Hoover, while visiting South
America last year, was advised of the
difficulties which the two nations were
having in reaching a settlement and
agreed to lend all proper assistance in
bringing about a final raprochement on
the question.
Both countries agree to release
reciprocally any obligations between the
two countries undertaken prior to the
agreement.
After the settlement had been an
nounced, the State Department made
public an exchange of kilograms be-
tween Secretary Stimson and former
Secretary Kellogg, in which the former
gave credit to his predecessor for the
successful termination of the dispute.
This honorable and highly creditable
result" said Kellogg in reply, lis high
testimonial to the craftsmanship OF the
Presidents of those countries and
testifieS to their devotion to peace and
the Pacific settlement of international
controversies"