Word: humait
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...main force of the rebels had escaped. While some fought a holding action, others crowded on to river barges and tugs, transferred the "Voice of Victory" radio station to the paddle-wheel steamer Itzuaingo and headed down, the Paraguay River in company with the armored gunboats Paraguay and Humait...
...Buenos Aires' harbor, for two months, the crews of the visiting gunboats Paraguay and Humaitá had debated which side to join. Last week, in a small-arms battle that raged below and across the ships' decks, they settled their argument. When Paraguay's Ambassador Alfonso Dos Santos rushed down to fix things for Morínigo, he was kicked bodily down the gangplank. Three officers went to the hospital. Then, under command of Lieut. Rolando Ibarra, the gunboats cast off, sailed away to join the revolutionists...
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