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Buenos Aires, Nov. 30--Paraguayan forces massed tonight for a smashing week-end offensive along the western sector of the Gran Chaco border war with Bolivia in a desperate drive to end the hostilities which have kept South America in turmoil for three years. Bolivia's rich oil fields were threatened...
Asuncion, Paraguay, Nov. 19--A bold plan for "an invasion into Bolivian territory" was formulated by the Paraguayan high command tonight, elated by victory in the Gran Chaco border...
...Young's firm was supplying both Bolivia and Paraguay with gas and arms as they were squaring off for a resumption of the Chaco War. At the time, however, a Federal Laboratories' agent on the spot wrote President Young: "Unfortunately for us it looks as if the trouble will be settled amicably...
...Pondering deeply, its juridical comittee overruled Paraguay's quibble that the League was unable to intervene to settle the Chaco War because Article XV of the League Covenant referred only to disputes "likely to lead to a rupture," whereas Bolivia and Paraguay actually were...
...agent in South America, one N. E. Bates Jr., to I. C. I. in which he pointed out that the Roosevelt embargo made it impossible for du Pont to fill an order for 440 Ib. of picric acid. 4,409 Ib. of TNT, 66 Ib. of nitroglycerine for the Chaco war, but since Britain had signed no embargo I. C. I. was quite welcome to the order instead. Mr. Bates was most apologetic about the smallness of the order...