Word: asuncion
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Peace. One noon last week the planes of the commissioners soared over the foothills' front. The commanders in the trenches below signaled "Cease firing" to their troops. The little brown men dropped their guns, picked up drums and horns to serenade one another. In La Paz and Asuncion, the women conning the casualty lists for the last few days of the war, had plenty to read. In Bolivia the Government, faced with the return of soldiers who had been led to defeat, looked shaky...
...wounded about the same. The mysterious Gran Chaco has at last been explored, even to some extent developed and colonized. Economically, Paraguay is no better off than Bolivia; both are financially exhausted. Simon Patiño's mine stocks were up last week. And last week in Asuncion there was earnest talk of rewarding Paraguay's able General Estigarribia with the rank of Marshal, a title last held by the great Tyrant López, as well as a life income of 1,500 gold pesos and his regular pay as a General...
...Asuncion--Paraguay claims fresh vic- the traditional place--the lower righthand corner...
...Asuncion, Paraguay, Nov. 19--A bold plan for "an invasion into Bolivian territory" was formulated by the Paraguayan high command tonight, elated by victory in the Gran Chaco border...
...Commission announced that it would appoint a sub-commission that would plunge into the Chaco and report whether or not the truce had been violated. Its Spanish chairman set out for Montevideo to preside there at a peace conference between Paraguayan and Bolivian plenipotentiaries especially dispatched last week from Asuncion...