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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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program.The War Department has been cancelingcontracts for immense quantities of munitionsand supplies, while trying to send soldiersto their homes as rapidly as possible. TheDepartment of Commerce is wrestling withmany complicated business conditions. ^^fj^ Some forty years ago a conflictand began on the west coast of South America which resulted in theacquisition by Chile of the seacoast provincesof Bolivia and of the southernmost provincesof Peru. The two Peruvian provinces ofTacna and Arica, by the settlement of 1883,were to be held for ten years by Chile, afterwhich their destiny was to be settled by avote of the inhabitants. Such a vote has neverbeen taken, and Chile has held the provincesnow for several decades. Last month thequestion became acute again, and there wasdanger of war. The United States counseleda peaceful settlement and tendered good of-fices, asking Argentina to join. Whatevermethod may be adopted, it seems probable thatthe matter will be settled and war averted.
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THE TRIANON PALACE AT VERSAILLES. WHERE THE SESSIONS OF THE INTER-ALLIEO WAR COUNCIL WERE HELD AND WHERE THE PEACE CONFERENCE WILL PROBABLY MEET (The palace and park at Versailles—twelve miles southwest of Paris—date from the time of Louis XIV, two-centuries and a half ago. Besides its interesting French history, Versailles became the German military head-quarters during the siege of Paris, and it was there that King William I of Prussia was proclaimed GermanEmperor) RECORD OF CURRENT EVENTS (From November 21 to December 17, 1918) INCIDENTS DURING THE ARMISTICE November 21.—The German High Seas Fleetis surrendered to a great Allied armada near theFirth of Forth, under the terms of the armistice;seventy-one vessels are surrendered—nine battle-ships, five battle cruisers, seven light cruisers, andfifty destroyers. American troops enter the Duchy of Luxemburg. November 22.—King Albert makes formal entryinto Brussels, the capital, after four years ofGerman occupation. November 2

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