Word: campero
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Coincident with the declaration of war came, for home consumption, reports of a great Paraguayan victory: at Fort Gondra a heavy attack had been launched, masses of Bolivian munitions captured, and the Bolivian Campero regiment "virtually annihilated." All this was promptly denied by Bolivian headquarters. Meanwhile the first U. S. correspondent to visit the actual battle front in the Chaco, Anthony Patric of the Chicago Daily Tribune, had his first report published in the U. S. He wrote...