Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again the League Commission took over. The 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...
...before long Bolivian money began to give out. Mountain Indian boys, with no idea what the war was all about, were conscripted in herds and sent to die in the steaming Chaco. Last week t'.ie lighting Paraguayans struck back and Fort Saavedra fell. So did two more stockaded mounds known as Forts Cuatro Vientos and Bolivar. Slaughtered were 15,000 Bolivian troops, 1.700 within two days. Nine regiments surrendered unconditionally. Of the Bolivian army.in the field only the 7th Division remained intact. General Kundt, old and broken, was promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda...
...bought for $28,539, he had done so through a Canadian holding company, thereby avoiding paying personal income tax on the profits. The Government is now-trying to collect $95,000 on this account. Defaulted Bonds, It was brought out that in selling $131,000,000 of Brazilian and Bolivian bonds now in default, Dillon, Read and their associates had made $6,000,000 gross. One issue of Rio de Janeiro bonds bought by Dillon, Read at 89 was sold to the public at $97.75, the spread of 8¾ points being split three ways as commission between Dillon. Read...
...scratch hard-biting Chaco lice. In far-off Geneva, where they could not see the smile on the face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep and dark as if for silver, copper...
General Kundt sent tanks and flame throwers clattering into the Paraguayan shambles. As Bolivian troops poured in. thousands of little brown men fought back & forth in furious hand-to-hand combat. The sun went down and the moon came up. Two outlying Paraguayan forts were raked by merciless Bolivian machine gun fire. Paraguayans, famed as South America's fiercest fighters with bayonet and machete, rallied under the leadership of White Russian commanders, a stiff match for Bolivia's German officers under General Kundt. Soon in the jungle grass 2,000 men lay dead. Above & below Fort Nanawa...