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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...
...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...