ALLEGED SPIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 5

ALLEGED SPIES.

ARRESTS IN ECUADOR. JAPANESE MAPPING! TERRITORY. ON PERUVIAN FRONTIER. (liy TEtEGRAFU—I'IIESS ASSOCIATION—COI'IBIQUT.) (Rec. January 27, lO.'lO p.m.) Quito (Ecuador), January 27. Three Japanese, supposed to be spies in the service of the adjoining Republic of Peru, or Japaneso army officers, have been arrested whilo mapping. out the country on tlio Ecuador side of the Peruvian frontier, and have been lodged in gao! at Guayaquil, the chief rort of Ecuador. They wero captured near Cuenca, 70 miles south-east of Guayaquil. •BOUNDARY DISPUTES. Between the South American Republics of Ecuador, Peru,' and Colombia thero have been for some time boundary disputes' at.present unsettled. As far as: Ecnador and-Colombia are concerned, it; appears that there is a treaty, dated 1904 under which the Ecuador-Colombia boundary is submitted to the arbitration of the Gorman Emperor. •Quito, an inland town, situated at a' high elevation in the Andes, is capital of Ecuador,'but Guayaquil, which has the same population (about 80,000), is the chief port and centre of foreign commerce. Ecuador has an army of about 4350 officers and men, with a'National Guard whioh oan be made up to 90,000. Peru's army is about 4000 strong, and it is thought that 80,000 men could be -mobilised,' but :there is. little military training.; ' Peru has also a navy of 14 vessels, all of which are: of small importance, with the exception of two protected cruisers, built in 1906, of 3200 tons and 24 knots, speed. Chili broke the power of Peru in the war of 1875. ■