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...vicious little Gran Chaco war between Bolivia & Paraguay last week reached its Gettysburg. Under French-trained General Estigarribia the Paraguayans, born short-end fighters, had harried the Bolivians northwestward across the jungle to the Pilcomayo River, backed them up against their last Chaco stronghold, Fort Ballivian. The Paraguayans planned to take Ballivian and stop. They found the Bolivians entrenched in open hayfields, for the first time in the war. General Estigarribia's artillery bombarded the trenches for two days. On the second the first wave of Paraguayans stumbled out into the hayfields in a close formation bayonet charge...
...still welcome in Paraguay last week. A shipload of them arrived in Asunsion on their way to dig cotton plantations out of the forests of Eastern Paraguay not far from a similar settlement of White Russians. The Paraguayan Government demanded only one thing: Should the present tide in the Chaco war turn and Bolivia start to invade Paraguayan territory, the new immigrants must serve in the army. ¶ Next problem was Russia and the Kamchatka fishing leases (TIME, March 5). Russia had refused to renew the Japanese leases because she felt that with the yen off gold they no longer...
After bitter arguments over every other point, Paraguayan and Bolivian delegates to the League of Nations peace conference on the Chaco War locked horns in Buenos Aires last week over Rutherford B. Hayes...
...Pilcomayo and the Verde rivers to Paraguay. Argentina accepted the award and President Hayes went down in South American history as a great peacemaker. Last week Paraguay stubbornly refused to allow any of the territory included in the original Hayes award to be discussed in arbitrating the present Chaco War. Bolivia, arguing that it had not been considered in the White House decision of 1878, refused to carry on further negotiations unless the Hayes award was thrown open to fresh discussion...
Meanwhile in the hot muddy Chaco itself, peppery little Paraguayan soldiers were pushing steadily forward, regardless of the League of Nations or Rutherford B. Hayes. Their objective is a collection of fortified shacks known as Fort Cabezon. Should they capture it Paraguay will control all passable roads in the war area, thus preventing any major operations by Bolivia until the end of the rainy season...