DIVIDING LINES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 11

DIVIDING LINES

BOUNDARIES OF NATIONS

A C4EOGRAPHICAL SDR^TSt

(From "The Post's" Representative.) NEW YOBK,' 20th August.

An interesting summary ofJ thii ciianges made'iit. 192!) iri the bbuiidariei of the nations, of. the v wprid is. ~; f ur. nished' by .the National.,. Geographical

Society

In the Antarctic the" greatest activity; occurred. New ' territory "was 'added to the ' map..of the -world :13y;; the- expeditions' of' Byrd, TWilkiriSj and.'. -Mawson.-: iV's.the'cxpeditionX'of ißyrd' and Wilkins were: financed: iff,^ho'';:,'Unitecl States, the people' of ' America. ,' hava been well posted about:--' tfrir Little ov nothing is-known .here, however, of the interesting ''discoveries of •Sir Douglas' Mawson/ ■■whose exploits were not generally.' published'1 in, ': tha United States Or Qanad'a, except-itfsueh. newspapers as the''New'.York Tinles," which insist on posting' th'eif readers with the news of the world/ Irrespective of the conditions. . Norway'did. soma exploring work in .Antarctica-, occupying an island in the. ■ KoalcT Amnndsea Sea for a whaling station; ;.nammg it Peter I. Island. Argentina/restated Ijpp claims to the Falklan.ds. and; the South Orkneys. .. .'.- •:.. -. ■' ..:.;'. ". r .... The prospective choice :6f",the,..lee.land Spitebergcn-lludson, Bay. joule'- for air travel between,- Eutopo/syicT-'the. Americas .opened a discussion^ '. ..in . the United States as. to .Qaiiada's !clainis 10 tho Arctic. .'. Meantime".t : he....l)onunioa advanced ..her mounted police ;p.ost.s to Bacho Peninsula,-.'.eleven- degrees, from the. Pole. . The : question.of. disputing ; British .sovereignty .by.er. the.-Arctic.and ! Antarctic is.'being ac'tiy.ely".. discussed just now at. thp.'.-Institute o'^'.l'oljticsat ."Williamstownr.Mass,:..,;,Tie".'discussion, is' a".hardy annual."..; '/^'.:/..,

"Marked progress^!!,! says'^ the- . report, of the .National ,GcrOgiapMca,r Society,, "was made .in. S.QutU; America, ia settling irritating-.'boundary;'questions. In .addition to .the .l^eiia-Arie'a ment, war in the Gran. Ch'aco Region: between Paraguay and Bolivia was dieeked by mediators, whb^asked'.p'erniissioii. of the contending nations.to.pursue.theinquiry deeper into, the larger.^question of a possible boundary.^'post.';.. Brazil is busy settling boundary questions ou. all sides. Negotiations., hayeV begun toward, defining boundaries'.oni-Jier.,fron-tiers with four countries-—British Guiana, Venezuela, ■ .Uruguay, and French Guiana.' 5 ■ " ~ . ......

The United States and Canada signed a treaty permitting increased:'diversion of water.from. Niagara.Ealls far^Qwerdevelopment. . In. Central America.tho United States has assigned, a'corps ot" engineers to survey tho...route.' for.'.tho proposed Nicaraguaii .Canal: conihe'eting1. tho Caribbean Sea. aid- the,'. Pacific, Guatemala and Ilouduriris are..-.seeking an" agreement over 'thfe-.disputecl'El. Cinchado territory., v." '. '■• "j,\~ S' :.':':''}."'.