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Swarthy soldiers wearing U. S. uniforms, complete with U. S. eagle buttons, advanced from Bolivia last week to do further battle with Paraguayans in the long disputed, excessively swampy Gran Chaco (TIME...
...used to figure the presence of Napoleon on a battlefield as worth 40,000 men to the French. Observers agreed last week that the presence of white-headed General Hans Kundt, onetime German imperial staff officer and de facto dictator of Bolivia, on the jungle battlefront of the Gran Chaco was worth at least 5,000 men to Bolivia. Following the hysterical, flower-strewn welcome to him in La Paz three weeks ago, a huge airplane was seen circling over the battlefield last week. Open-mouthed Bolivianos in their steaming trenches told each other that it was El Aleman...
Fort Saavedra stands in the midst of a muddy plain surrounded by dense woods. It lies not in that part of the Gran Chaco which is in dispute, but in land which until six months ago was recognized as Bolivian. Round that fort for 31 days, 20,000 men have been fighting one of the greatest battles South America has seen for 50 years, in a war that has never been declared. It has been a close fight. The defending Bolivians have more men, heavier artillery, more munitions. The attacking Paraguayans have fresh water and more food-a tremendous advantage...
Last week marked an anniversary. For exactly five months Bolivian and Paraguayan soldiers have been fighting and dying in the steaming swamps of the Gran Chaco without an official declaration of war. Trustworthy reports from the front have been rare, one fact apparent: Slowly Paraguayans have been pushing Bolivians back...
...Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, officials admitted that Bolivian resistance in the Gran Chaco has recently grown stiffer but claimed that Fort Saavedra, in the strategic sector of the Chaco, would fall within a fortnight. Paraguay's Minister of War, Pastor Benitez. declared that half the officers and staff officers of Bolivia have been either killed, wounded or captured in the past four months. Bolivia's war department retorted that 2,000 Paraguayans had been killed in the first seven days of the attack on Fort Saavedra...