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Bolivia v. Paraguay. In the sweltering, swampy, mosquito-infested Gran Chaco between Brazil and Paraguay a total of 1.250 soldiers of those nations have died in the recent war (TIME. Aug. 15), according to Bolivian official estimates last week...
...Copenhagen the Danish Rifle Syndicate admitted filling a small South American order for $50,000 worth of machine guns. They seemed to be destined for Paraguay, which is still fighting Bolivia in the Gran Chaco (TIME...
Where Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina join on the map of South America lies the Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers. British Explorer Julian Duguid has described the Pilcomayo as "a vast, foul-smelling, oozy stretch of bog with as much movement as an unsqueezed sponge. ... An Englishman may obtain some slight insight into the discomfort of penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary...
Bolivia and Paraguay have different economic reasons for wanting the Chaco. To landlocked Bolivia it means a possible outlet to the sea. On the west Bolivia is only 75 miles from the Pacific but those 75 mountainous miles are owned by powerful, militaristic Chile. Bolivians think that they might be able to push ships through the unsqueezed sponge of the Pilcomayo down to the Paraguay and on to Buenos Aires and the Atlantic...
Paraguay wants the Chaco because the district is larger than the rest of their country and its jungles contain great growths of the quebracho tree, whose bark yields 30% tannin...