723.2515/3325: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson) to the Secretary of State
[Paraphrase]
Santiago, April 8, 1929—4
p.m.
[Received 8 p.m.]
[Received 8 p.m.]
57. While Peru has made no proposal, the Foreign Minister said this morning that President Leguia will accept either a port at Las Yaradas which engineers stated would cost eight or nine million dollars or a port 3 kilometers north of the most northerly pier of Arica which would cost $3,500,000. Tomorrow the Chilean Cabinet will consider these solutions. The Foreign Minister was unwilling to express an opinion as to what the decision would be.
Culbertson