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...conclusion that the Conference had "settled" the conflict. Facts are that a long-suffering League of Nations Commission has been wallowing about in the swamps between Bolivia and Paraguay. Its members, the major, the two generals, the count and Spanish Chairman Alvarez del Vayo began by conferring in Asuncion with Paraguayan President Eusebio Ayala, a onetime professor of philosophy. They wallowed across the Chaco battlefield and were in La Paz when harassed President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia received the awful news that his main army had been wiped out by the Paraguayans with a loss of 15,000 men (TIME...
...still of course is the case in the Chaco, devoid of population. But it is not difficult to settle, as has been proved by the recent colonies of Canadian and Russian Mennonites. Soil is generally very favorable for agriculture. The Chaco wants ploughs, not machine guns. GEORGE H. PEARSON Asuncion, Paraguay...
Bolivia's reply to that was a threat to blow Paraguay's capital, Asuncion...
Reporters last week noted tremendous artillery fire. Two Paraguayan attacks were beaten back. A Bolivian plane fought a Paraguayan plane (no decision) to the immense enjoyment of ground troops on both sides. Travelers reported boatloads of wounded passing up the Paraguay River to Asuncion. There were the usual complaints of bombing field hospitals, but strangely, war correspondents noted no atrocity stories, possibly because most of the soldiers of both armies are Indians, not quite sure what is an atrocity and what is fair fighting...
...Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, officials admitted that Bolivian resistance in the Gran Chaco has recently grown stiffer but claimed that Fort Saavedra, in the strategic sector of the Chaco, would fall within a fortnight. Paraguay's Minister of War, Pastor Benitez. declared that half the officers and staff officers of Bolivia have been either killed, wounded or captured in the past four months. Bolivia's war department retorted that 2,000 Paraguayans had been killed in the first seven days of the attack on Fort Saavedra...