Word: chaco
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...What Chaco Wants...
Sirs: TIME'S notice, Bog War (April 3) gives an erroneous idea of the struggle in question. Paraguay has administered Chaco Boreal since Colonial days in her own right. Bolivia was only able to construct chain of small forts owing to domestic troubles in Paraguay during last 30 years, penetrating slowly into undisputed Paraguayan Zone recognized as such by treaties signed by themselves, by U. S. and by the Argentine Republic. Bolivia has never cultivated or owned an inch of ground in that region. Bolivian authorities' object in claiming Chaco is only apparently obtention of outlet on river...
Thousands of men have died in battle in the four quarters of the globe in the past ten years, but until last week no nation had formally declared war since the League of Nations was founded. Paraguay, which has been fighting Bolivia in the steaming sponge of the Gran Chaco jungle for eleven months, took the brash step. A few hours after Bolivia had formally rejected the peace overtures of neighboring Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, pudgy President Eirebio Ayala of Paraguay issued a proclamation...
...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...
...near Nanawa, the Verdun" of the Chaco, that the Bolivian and Paraguayan armies are locked in a battle which may determine the ultimate winner of the war. Modern trench methods have been adopted by both sides. At some parts of the Nanawa front, the enemy forces are less than 100 feet apart. Although the trenches are crudely built and uncomfortable, the sanitary conditions are good...