WILL THERE BE WAR?

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9543, 15 July 1909, Page 5

WILL THERE BE WAR?

TROUBLE BETWEEN- BOLIVIA JIND PERU. DISTURBANCES AND PILLAGING IN BOLIVIA. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegrap * Copyright. Received July 14, 8.35 p.m. LA PAZ, July 14. Owing to disturbances and pillaging martial law has been proclaimed throughout Bolivia. Bolivia has rejected the frontier award. In some quarters this rejection is intrepreled as equivalent to a declaration of war. 2 There is a great exodus of Peruvians fromßolivia.

In 1904 a dispute arose regarding Acre territory, lying on the extreme northern borders of Bolivia and Brazil, along the Acre or Aquiry river. It is an important rubber region, and has as its chief settlement the river port of Acre or Port Alono. There had been previous trouble over the boundary between the two countries, but in March, 1903, a modus vivendi was arranged, and a treaty transferring the territories of Upper Acre,Uper Purus and Upper Jurua to Brazil as far as the 11th degree of south longitude in exchange for the concession to Bolivia of territory on the frontier of Matto Grosse and the River Madeira, plus £2,000,000, and various commercial facilities, was signed on November 21st, 1903. A cablegram published on Tuesday last stated that the award of the President of the Argentine Republic, requiring Bolivia to restore to Peru a portion of the territory which the former sold in 1907 to Brazil for £2,000,000 led to disturbances at La Paz, in Bolivia. A mob attacked the Argentine Legation, which, is now strongly guarded.