Word: boqueron
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...months ago the first clash occurred. Last week Bolivian forces, sweating through the jungle, attacked and captured a fortified Paraguayan hut proudly known as Fort Boqueron. Little Paraguay has a regular army of only 3,000 men, but no bantams crowed more fiercely than the pugnacious Paraguayans last week. Pudgy, pop-eyed President Jose P. Guggiari sent a strong protest to the League of Nations against Bolivian aggression, then mobilized the army and published a clarion to his people...
When the President learned that-although war had not been declared-Bolivian soldiers had captured Paraguayan Fort Boqueron, he cried from a balcony of the presidential palace, "in taking the fort our soldiers gave a splendid example of Bolivian patriotism. Viva the army; viva the commander of our forces in the Chaco; viva Bolivia...
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