Peru and the League The evolutions of the Peruvian navy,
now in progress, are a matter of some interest to the League of Nations. A dispute, in which Peru is com- pletely and indisputably in the wrong, is now before_ the League Council, the affair hinging on the seizure by Peruvians of the Colombian town of Leticia. Land operations having reached a deadlock, the navy of Peru has started on a voyage through the Panama Canal, down the eastern coast of South America and up the Amazon, an operation which would bring it within strik- ing.- distance of Leticia. if that is the intention, it is obviously improper for any State Member of .the League to -accord it any facilities of any kind. Great Britain, France and Holland are involved through their po,,- session of ports in the Guianas (and in the case of Britai a at Trinidad). Peru's rather airy explanation that her ships are merely proceeding to Peruvian ports on the Amazon, has not satisfied the League Committee con- cerned. As a precedent for the future it is obviously of the first importance that if the fleet is suspected of hostile intentions no State Member of the League should give it any facilities whatever.
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