PEACE DECLAEATION
COLOMBIA AND PERU
GENEVA, May 26. Colombia and Peru have signed a peace declaration. .
Peru' and Colombia for soino tirao havo been in open conflict for possession of the territory of Letieia in tho Upper Amazon. Although Peru regarded tho town of LetiCia as being within her borders, Colombians were mainly in possession of it. Being tho only access to the Amazon available fdr Colombia, tho town was regarded as of great value by the northern Bepublic. Direct negotiations were recently opened between tho two States. Senor Alfonso Lopez, president of the Liberal Party in Colombia, announced his intention of going to Lima to discuss personally with President Benavides a solution of the Loticia question. The negotiations followed an exchange of telegrams between the two, who had been intimate friends since both served in diplomatic posts at London.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 13
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140PEACE DECLAEATION Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 13
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