Tacna-Arica Dispute

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

concerning the districts of Tacna and Arica lying between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. The territories were ceded by Peru to Chile at the end of the Chilean war of 1883, but with the understanding that a plebiscite was to be held in ten years to determine their ultimate ownership. Owing to disputes in regard to the plebigencies. The proposal is, in general, to create a central system of cables through which the accumulated electric power of the section would be transmitted in hightension currents, to be stepped down to meet the needs of consumers and consuming communities along the way. A socalled Super-Power Survey, carried through by engineers working under the authority of the U. S. Geological Survey, was completed in July, 1921. It covered the Atlantic Seaboard States from Massachusetts to Maryland, inclusive, and was concerned not only with questions of water-power development, but with the feasibility of utilizing coal at the source in the steam-power generation of electricity. SYRIA. By an Anglo-French agreement made in 1916 Syria was divided into three parts to be administered respectively by Great Britain, France, and Arab authorities. The British and French parts were regarded by by the Arabs as merely spheres of influence, and in 1919 Emir Feisal, representing the kingdom of Hedjaz at the Peace Conference, asked that all Syria be united under the mandate of Great Britain or the United States. By the Treaty of Sèvres, signed Aug. 10, 1920, Syria was recognized as independent, subject to the administrative advice and assistance of a mandatory selected by the Allied Powers, this mandatory nation being France. A Pan-Syrian Congress had met in March, 1920, and declared all Syria, including Palestine, independent, with Emir Feisal of Hedjaz as king. The Syrian Nationalists, cooperating with the Turks, opposed the French occupation of the country, and Feisal was forced to resign the throne. Under the French mandate Syria is divided into five more or less autonomous states. A new state of Lebanon, with its capital at Beirut and with a large degree of autonomy, was established at the end of 1920. T scite, it had not been held up to 1922. Bolivia had also been engaged in the war with Chile, and a treaty growing out of that war was ultimately signed in 1904, Bolivia receiving under this treaty and subsequent agreements an outlet to the sea through the port of Arica in return for the definite cession to Chile of the long-disputed province of Antofagasta.