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...Paraguayan shambles. As Bolivian troops poured in. thousands of little brown men fought back & forth in furious hand-to-hand combat. The sun went down and the moon came up. Two outlying Paraguayan forts were raked by merciless Bolivian machine gun fire. Paraguayans, famed as South America's fiercest fighters with bayonet and machete, rallied under the leadership of White Russian commanders, a stiff match for Bolivia's German officers under General Kundt. Soon in the jungle grass 2,000 men lay dead. Above & below Fort Nanawa the Bolivians had broken through but Nanawa-Paraguay's Verdun...
...David Stern. They fight editorially-liberal, hard-hitting Record v. high Tory Public Ledgers and Inquirer. They fight for circulation-with the Record (149,000) now well ahead of the morning Public Ledger (105,000) and creeping up on the Inquirer, which still has an ample lead (232,000). Fiercest of all is the fight for advertising, in which the Record has beaten the Public Ledger, is worrying the Inquirer...
...hummocks in a bog are Forts Munoz and Nanawa, 60 mi. apart in the sopping Gran Chaco jungle between Paraguay and Bolivia. Last December the Paraguayans, South America's fiercest fighters, had pushed big Bolivia's lackadaisical army back to the outlying "forts" (huts on mounds) around Munoz. Last week the cloak-&-sword Bolivians, wearing second-hand U. S. uniforms, wielding jungle machetes, took "Fort" Jordan, backed the Paraguayans against Nanawa. their Verdun, a small French-built fort that was the last defense before the Paraguay River and Paraguay's second biggest city, Concepcion...
...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 in that feverish rain-soaked region-and, as any student of Paraguay's War of 1864 should remember, they are the fiercest fighters in Latin America...
Spot wholesale prices for Brazilian coffee in Manhattan climbed from 9½ cents per pound July 9 when the civil war began, to 16 cents on Sept. 28 when fighting was fiercest. Last week the price was falling, had passed 12% cents, was expected to reach the pre-civil war price of 9½ cents soon after S. S. Western World, which left Santos last week with 61,000 bags of coffee, sights the Statue of Liberty...