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Show LATIN-AMERICANS TO ARBITRATE ROW WASHINGTON, July 21 fBy the Associated Press.) The argemnt of Chile and Peru to arbitrate their Tao-.na-Arica controversy was signd by the I plenipotentiaries of the two governments govern-ments today at a final pes.iion of the Chilean-Peruvian conference here. I ) The agreement to settle the ancient 1 dispute by arbitration hailed by ! Secretary Hughes in a speech at the i closing session of the conference as a sweeping victory for the "conference plan of International negotiation." "If war Is to be prevented when international in-ternational controversies arrive, tlv secretary declared, it can only bo accomplished ac-complished through the willingness of nations to provide for "the contracts of honorable and reasonable men" who honestly desire to erase difficulties rather than to keep them alive. The Tacna-Arica settlement. Mi Hughes deacrlled as th greatest accomplishment ac-complishment 1 nthe generation ln the efforts of peace In the western worid no |