Show SAYS PERU IS AFTER RUBBER brazil threatens to foght for acre territory legation sues statement in which Neighboring Republic Is roundly F scored i washington may the acre dispute supposed to have been adjusted has broken out again and a crisis ie threatened the controversy Is between three nations brail peru and bolivia or the ownership of a large triangular tract of rubber lands situated where the three countries adjoin it appears bowyer that peruvian troops remain in the territory claimed by brazil and today minister thompson cabled the state department part ment from rio as follows it peru refuses to withdraw troops from the disputed territory inhabited by business relations pending negotiations tiati ons which are to be followed if necessary by arbitration brazil will immediately resort to force to expel the peruvians and will proceed to reprisals in official circles apprehension Is felt as to the outcome of the sharp clash between brazil and peru growing out of the dispute over the territories lying in the valleys of the alto jura and alto purus the brazilian legation has made the following statement the assertion of right made by brazil over the territories claimed by peru is not a fact of today this right is a long standing one and was solemnly recognized by peru herself in the treaty of 1851 which settled the boundary question between the two countries the title is now as valid as it was on the occasion of that treaty now as then it Is the principle adopted by pern as well as by the other south american republics of the ull aetis a principle which in the case in question Is the exact application of the rule established by pinckney and monroe in by pinckney and monroe in the note of april 20 and consecrated by and hall this reads thus when any european nation takes possession of any extent of seacoast that possession Is understood der stood as extending into the interior country to the of the rivers emptying with that coast to all their branches and the country they cover that possession of coast brazil has alaways had and beside the territory extending to the sources of the rivers juru and purus emptying with that coast has been from a long date peopled and explored by brazilians Brazi lians amounting today to a population of brazil therefore neither changed nor introduced any novelty in the matter her position la today the same as it was in 1851 when the boundary treaty with peru was concluded the whims and stories attributed to baron rio branbo foreign minister of drazel are to all appearances baseless nor can it be said that the person on whom the fascination brought abolt by the wealth of rubber in those re alons la working with baron branco brazil not only never did ad mit perus right tithe territories but on the contrary the 0 right was formally made by peru in behalf of brazil what brazil haa done however 1 to admit and reserve the claim of peru as seen lyche treaty of november 17 1903 restating tho boundaries between brayland Bray tand bolivia thia 1 proof ot the fairness of brazil and of liepos t alon to allow present any new title unknown to bra she may have to sustain her clario once bents any euch baro n afo bran Is ready to enter into i slon of the matter am n cas cpr npr agreements kaelble to submit the dispute to arbitration the statement wc ludes by saying that it peru will withdraw her troops brazil will gladly submit the question to arbitration but meanwhile brazil cannot tolerate that peru without any right should govern and impose her authority over territories peopled by brazilians Brazi lians and which she iset I 1 a aai jtb 01 sv a a |