Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 534/110.

(Handed to Acting Secretary Adee September 20, 1909, by Mr. de Freyre, chargé d’affaires of Peru.)

Lima, September 18, 1909.

The conflict with Bolivia has been favorably settled. Two protocols have been signed. In the first protocol the Argentine award is formally accepted. And in the second protocol, dated later, both parties specify certain territorial compensations agreed upon within the boundary line traced by the arbitrator.