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...Bolivia confident as Paraguayans start big drive in effort to win Gran Chaco war before League of Nations takes action...
...Bolivia, Dec. 18--Eighty thousand men were thrown into action today in the start of one of the bloodiest battles of the Gran Chaco border war when Paraguay launched her preliminary attack on the Bolivian field base of Villa Montes...
Even the 55-year-old squabble between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco must end some day. Last week it looked as if Paraguay, with one-third the population, one-eighth the area and one-twelfth the wealth of big Bolivia, had a chance to win. A combination of dumb Bolivian politics and smart Paraguayan tactics had lured Bolivia into making a terrible mistake...
...Murder Farm." In Geneva a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations especially convened to end the everlasting war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco achieved nothing more last week than an international radio hookup over which League statesmen mouthed fervent peace appeals...
Buenos Aires, Nov. 30--Paraguayan forces massed tonight for a smashing week-end offensive along the western sector of the Gran Chaco border war with Bolivia in a desperate drive to end the hostilities which have kept South America in turmoil for three years. Bolivia's rich oil fields were threatened...