Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 723.2515/257.

The American Minister to Peru to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Legation,
Lima, December 4, 1911.

Minister for Foreign Affairs informed that Chile has purchased munitions of war in Germany immediate delivery and that 7,000 men still in Tarata, Arica, and Tacna will be increased to 50,000 in furtherance of positive plan of attack of which Peru knows. Chilean advantage land and naval forces, with natural alliance from boundary disputes, presents conditions that will involve all at Chilean instigation. Defenseless, Peru invokes mediating Powers.

Howard.