White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-02-21
GEOGRAPHY CHANGES
ARE MADE IN 1929
Boundary Settlements and
Some Strife in Year.

0Omc SIfl1e IN ear
Washington. - Important boundary
changes many settlements and some
conflicts occurred during 1929.
A summary by the National Geo
graphic society shows shifts Of bonn-
dartes. populations. and sovereignties
OF the past year.
Important events In the field of
world real estate" says bulletin of
the society, ''were the establishment of
the Vatican city. the settlement of the
Tacna africa question with division
OF the territory between Chile and
Peru, the Mukden governments pledge
OF alliance to the central Chinese gov
eminent at Marking. the challenge to
Russian railroad control In north
Manchuria. Great Britain's approval Of
a plan to turn TraQ from mandate
Into an independent nation. and the
coup d'etat In Jugosavia by which
ministerial government was replaced
with dictatorship administered by
the king.
South American Adjustments.
marked progress In settling lrri-
tating boundary questions was made
In South America. In addition to the
Tacna AFRICA settlement, war In the
Chaco region between Paraguay and
BOLIVIA was checked by mediators
The mediators studying the question
Of which side was responsible for the
clash have asked permission Of the re-
spective nations to pursue the inquiry
deeper into the larger question of a
possible boundary. Brazil is busy set
Ting boundary questions on all sides.
"Coincident with the declaration of
dictatorship In Jugoslavia the name,
Kingdom Of the Serbs, Croats and
Slovenes was stricken out and the
provincial boundaries were redrawn.
Along the Rhine, the allied forces Of
occupation were cut down, $4,000 sol
diers having been withdrawn In the
last few months. With the evacuation
Of Wiesbaden. all British troops have
left the Rhine. Basel, Switzerland, on
the upper Rhine, was selected as home
of the new international bank. Land
bound Czechoslovakla acquired sea-
port in 1929 by purchasing port rights
from the free city Of Hamburg, Ger.
many. Poles are reported to be buy
Ing up land OF many Germans who are
migrating to Germany proper from
East Prussia, the German province
separated from Germany by the Polish
corridor.
Little Monaco staged Grau-
starkian revolt by which the indignant
citizens (who pay no taxes) won addi-
tional constitutional rights from the
reigning prince. On the northern linn
its Of France the autonomy movement
In Alsace was frowned upon by the
government.
saar Case Still Pending.
"The verailles treaty calls for
final decision on ownership of the Saar
and its iron mines by plebiscite In
1885. This plebiscite may be aban-
doned If Germany and France can
reach preliminary agreement which
is now subject Of discussion.
'Premier BRAND publicly launched
the United States Of Europe plan at
Geneva. Economic welding of the con-
tinental nations is going on rapidly
through the development of Industrial
cartels which serve to puncture tariff
walls.
"In Asia, the Manchurian question,
precipitated by the seizure of the Chi.
40 OF oil
pulsion Of Soviet railroad managers,
may soon be settled.
1.-THE United States and Canada
signed treaty permitting increased
diversion of water from Niagara Falls
for power development. In Central
America the United States has as
signed corps of engineers to survey
the route for the proposed Nlcaraguan
canal connecting the Caribbean sea
and the Pacific. Guatemala and Hon.
duras are trying to reach an agree
ment over the disputed Ell Cinchado
territory.
"New territory was added to world
maps by the discoveries Of the Byrd
expedition. Commander Byrd claimed
for the United States Marie Byrd
land, which lies outside territories to
which Great Britain has advanced
claims. In the Antarctic. also, Nor
way occupied an island in the ROAD
Amundsen sea for whaling station,
naming 1t Peter island
"In the Arctic the Soviet government
publicly proclaimed it's ownership Of
Franz Joseph land. Norway has now
definitely occupied Jan Mayen island,
north of Iceland, and on the island
Norway has established meteorolog-
ical station. Spitsbergen and Jan May
en- have been included under the new
official name Svalbard"