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Coincident with the declaration of war came, for home consumption, 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...
...during my stay at the front that the important battle of Gondra began. The Bolivian division was concealed near Gondra in particularly thick jungle. The troops were well camouflaged and equipped with machine guns. Picked infantry companies stood ready to advance with fixed bayonets. The Bolivians awaited the enemy's attack and let them advance almost in front of their lines. Then, with Paraguayans at the 20-yard mark, the Bolivian guns opened up, raking the Paraguayan lines with a terrific fire. The battle was hardly 15 minutes old before about 120 Paraguayan bodies were strewn over the battlefield...
...Against Bolivia's German management, Paraguayans had French-trained Jose Estigarribia. Retreating, they left cemeteries on whose fast-rotting headboards were names of Russian officers. General Kundt's objective was to cut off Fort Nanawa; the Paraguayans' to stop him at Nanawa's outlying "forts," Gondra and Falson...
Pacifists were hopeful, since in the Gondra Convention of May, 3, 1923, signed between Bolivia and Paraguay, there was contained a procedure of conciliation designed to prevent war between them. There was actually in existence at the neutral capital of Montevideo, Uruguay, last week a conciliation commission as provided in the Gondra Convention, presided over by the Mexican Minister to Uruguay, Senor Fortunato Vega. Nonetheless, the position of the Bolivian Government as expounded by the newspaper El Norte was: "The sovereign Congress of Bolivia has never approved the Gondra Convention; and even if it had the convention tends to prevent...
Died. Manuel Gondra, twice (1910 & 1920) President of Paraguay, onetime Minister to the U. S.; at Asuncion, Paraguay...
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