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...President-elect Eusebim Ayala of Paraguay did his best to avoid war with Bolivia in the disputed region of Gran Chaco where sniping between Paraguayan and Bolivian outposts goes on year after year (TIME...
That conditions in the Gran Chaco have provided an excuse for war these many years, everyone knows, incidents of provocation on both sides being numberless. Specifically the Bolivian Government alleged last week that on June 29 and on July 15 some Paraguayans shot & killed some Bolivians in the disputed territory...
...biggest single failure in Governor Murray's career. Defeated in politics, he went exploring through South America, where he hit upon the idea of establishing a colony of U. S. husbandmen in Bolivia. From that Government he secured a concession to 75,000 acres in El Ghan Chaco. Back in Oklahoma, he sold his Tishomingo farm, paid his debts, mustered together about 40 colonists including his own entire family and in 1924 led the way to Bolivia. The land was poor. The natives were unfriendly. Nostalgia plagued all. Within a short time every colonist except Bill Murray...
Parts of South America are still wild & woolly country. One of them is jungly eastern Bolivia, which natives call the Chaco, which Author Duguid calls Green Hell. Before Duguid and his two companions (J. C. Bee-Mason and Mamerto Urriolagoitia), to their knowledge no white men had penetrated that tract since Nuflo de Chavez...
Amusement, then approval, was the reaction of smart, cosmopolitan Buenos Aires last week to Amos Schwartzenstruber. A potent member of the Mennonite Mission Board of the U. S. and Canada is Mr. Schwartzenstruber. He reached Buenos Aires after an inspection tour through the Mennonite colony in Gran Chaco ("Great Hunting-Ground"), the remote and disputed region over which Bolivia and Paraguay were recently at war de facto if not de jure (TIME...