-NATION LEAGUE
TO BE ASKED TO
SETTLE DISPUTE
BUENOS AIRES, July 2 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The famous Tacna and
. Arica dispute problem involving Chile,
^Peru and Bolivia, is not the only
South American problem which may
*■ go before the League of Nations for
settlement. There has existed for
* years a controversy between Para
guay and Bolivia over a strip of ter
ritory in the heart of South Amer
ica as big as the state of California.
This, it 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 collected
their data on world problems for
^\ise at the Paris peace conference,
they included a report on the issues
between Boliva and Paraguay over the
possession of this territory, which is
called on Bolivian maps the Bolivian
Chaco and on Paraguayan maps the
Paraguayan Chaco.
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have been brought before the confer
ence by the Bolivian peace delegate,
Senator Montes. It was decided, it is
understood here, to postpone the ques
tion for early settlement by the
league.
These problems hold for Bolivia,
hemmed in on all sides by other
states, the realization of her great
est political and commercial ambi
tion, her own territorial outlet to the
v sea. Possession of the port of Arica
^ would give her an outlet to the Paci
fic. and, curious as it may seem, pos
session of the Chaco, or at least a
part of it, would give her egress to
the Atlantic. For the Chaco borders
the great River Paraguay, affluent
of the River Plate, and on the Chaco
side of the river, 2,000 miles from
Buenos Aires, is a little port called
Bahia Negra. Here ocean steamships
from the United States and Europe
could take on cargo transported
across the northern edge of the Chaco
from the Bolivan mines and farms.
But in the year 1886, a few years
af^r Bolivia had lost in war the Paci
fic port of Antofagasta and was turn
ing her eyes eastward, Bahia Negra
was seized by Paraguay and has been
in her possession ever since. Para
i ^guay, furthermore, made land allot
^pments in the Chaco, whose unsurpass
ed pasture and great quebracho for
ests were beginning to attract the
white man. A mysterious, unexplored
land, stretching northward from the
Pilcomayo river on the Argentine bor
der and westward from the River Par
aguay into undisputed Bolivian ter
ritory, it has not been directly crossed
by white men since the days of the
Spanish conquerors, since the year
1548 to be exact. Except near the
rivers, it is inhabited only by savage
Indian tribes to this day, but both
nations looked forward to its possibil
ities, which recently have included
that of finding petroleum.
Bolivia protested the seizure of
Bahia Negra, moving down from the
^Bolivan city of Santa Cruz by mule
team, along the northern edge of the
Chaco, as it still does.
To uphold their claims both gov
ernments unearthed musty archives
in Madrid dealing with the expedi
tions of the Spanish conquerors and
the land grants of the Spanish crown
in South America. Various diplomat
ic negotiations have been initiated
between the two governments from
time to time looking to a division of
the territory, but either one congress
or the other refused to ratify the
agreements which the diplomats drew
up.
The report of the American peace
experts on the question was placed
in official archives against the time
when the League of Nations was
ready to take the matter up. Much
of the material, it is learned was
supplied by a young American sent
to South America to investigate and
whose prrivate opinion is that a logi
cal settlement of the dispute would
be an equal division of the territory,
but which would, give Bolivia her
coveted port.
There are interesting possibilities
in the settlement for those who have
received land grants in the Chaco
from one government or the other.
Some of these are vast in extent.
One citizen from Argentina has se
cured in Paraguayan grants sole title
to an area larger than Holland and
Belgium combined.
AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITIES
ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE
THRU ENHANCED PRICES
VIENNA, July 2 (by The Associated
Press).—The universities and tech
nical institutes of Vienna a_'e cr. the
verge of collapse according to a re
p<- rt of the chairman of the commit
tee for education.
Their grants are still on the scale
fixtd in 1913 which the falling crown
ar.d enhanced prices make a mere pit
tnce. For instance the entire sub
sidy of the meterological institute
does not suffice to subscribe for one
English periodical considered essen
tial for its work.
All of the colleges are five years
in arrears of scientific publications
and in debt for old materials. Lab
ratory utensils have increased in price
to more than 20 times pre-war co3t
while chemical and medical supplies
have reached fantastic prices. Co
caine is cited as a striking example.
Costing formerly 200 crowns a kilo
gram (of 2.20 pounds) it is now worth
48,000. Iodine is worth 3,500 crowns
the kilogram. Platinum is practical
ly unpurchaseable, the quotation be
ing 650,000 crowms the kilogram.
Vivisection has been abandoned be
cause of the cost of animals, mechan
ical studies stopped for lack of ma
chinery and throughout the list of
technical schools the same conditions
exist.
Formerly the government provided
needy students with the necessary
materials and equipment for scientif
ic work, but now the enrollment is
five times greater than before the
war.
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CHICAGOAN RECEIVES
WEN-HU DECORATION
PEKING, July 2 (by Associated
Press).—In recognition of his ser
vices as head of the inter-allied tech
nical board. Pies.dent Hsu Shin
chang has decorated Colonel John F.
Stevens of Chicago with the first class
Wen hu or literary tiger medal.
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