Office of the Historian

723.2515/522: Telegram

The Ambassador in Chile (Shea) to the Secretary of State

Santiago, November 5, 1919, 2 p.m.
[Received November 6, 12.05 a.m.]

The press to-day publishes, officially, a statement issued by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs denying entirely that Chile had given to Bolivia an extension of land north of Arica for the purpose of a seaport. The statement is issued because of telegraphic report from Washington, published yesterday in the Buenos Aires newspapers, stating that this cession had been officially made by the Chilean Government.

Shea