DISPUTE BETWEEN SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS ENDED

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 9

DISPUTE BETWEEN SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS ENDED

Protocol Signed NINE JUDGES WILL BE APPOINTED TO TRIBUNAL MULTILATERAL TREATIES. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Saturday, 2 a.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The Pan-American conference brought to a successful conclusion its efforts to obtain a settlement of the BolivianParaguayau dispute, when a protocol of conciliation of the controversy was signed on Thursday night by representatives of the disputing countries, calling for the appointment of an international tribunal of nine judges to investigate the recent clashes. The conference also agreed on twi multilateral treaties, designed to prevent war in the Western Hemisphere. An arbitration treaty established the principle of tho compulsory arbitration of all international controversies, between tho American republics. Two exceptions include controversies involving domestic jurisdiction and disputes involving third parties. The conciliation pact would establish the principle of the compulsory submission of disputes of any kind to this method of settlement.