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...times this year General José Felix Estigarribia's little brown troopers tried to carry the Bolivian "Verdun," Fort Ballivian, by assault. Six times they failed. Last July Estigarribia moved ostentatiously away to the north and made a great display of advancing on that front. At that point Bolivia blundered...
...already lost one son in the War, wanted to elect a Genuine Republican successor and keep the war going. He was faced with the worst kind of campaign material: news of the great Paraguayan victories on the northern front. Since he had assured his countrymen again & again that Fort Ballivian was "impregnable," he ordered his generals to take most of their troops out of Ballivian and run a rousing counteroffensive in the north. In a blaze of Bolivian victories last month, Salamanca's candidate for President, Franz Tamayo, was elected...
Hardly had the Bolivian ballots been counted when the hosts of Paraguay suddenly reappeared before "impregnable" Fort Ballivian. This time they took it without trouble, along with 10,000 Bolivians and $3,000,000 worth of ammunition. This week they are slamming ahead through the Chaco, only 60 mi. from Bolivia proper...
Canada Strongest has nothing whatever to do with a British Dominion or ginger ale. A canada is a Spanish dingle. Canada Strongest is a narrow valley named for a Bolivian soccer team, about 15 mi. northeast of Fort Ballivian in the Gran Chaco. There last week nearly 100,000 men of the armies of Bolivia and Paraguay were concentrated for what each hoped would be the deciding battle of their...
Attempting to outflank Fort Ballivian, Paraguay's shrewd General Jose Felix Estigarribia sent three full divisions inland from the Pilcomayo River. At Canada Strongest the Bolivians struck. All the world has helped supply both armies with munitions, but there was a particularly Franco-Prussian cast to the battle of Canada Strongest. Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General...