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...Nazi spokesman, Deputy Ernst Kundt, promptly bellowed: "We will keep calm as long as is humanly possible but when we lose our calm the world will know it is your fault...
...Youthful General Estigarribia, Paraguayan Commander-in-Chief, is French-trained, a graduate of the French cavalry school at Saumur and the great military academy of St.-Cyr. Bolivia's General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo is German-trained and served under Bolivia's dismissed Prussian commander. General Hans Kundt...
...present interminable struggle, in which Paraguay has so far been victorious, having almost completely demolished the southern army of Bolivia just prior to the signing of the truce. Bolivia, however, has taken advantage of the truce to recuperate, banish the peace party, and get rid of the German general, Kundt. Apparently, she is now ready to enter the struggle with renewed energy...
Nobody loves a mercenary who loses. That lesson was brought home to plump General Hans Kundt of Germany and Bolivia last week. Fresh from Prussian drill fields, he whipped the dazed Indian conscripts of Bolivia into the semblance of a modern fighting machine, commanded them in the Chaco War against Paraguay...
...lighting Paraguayans struck back and Fort Saavedra fell. So did two more stockaded mounds known as Forts Cuatro Vientos and Bolivar. Slaughtered were 15,000 Bolivian troops, 1.700 within two days. Nine regiments surrendered unconditionally. Of the Bolivian army.in the field only the 7th Division remained intact. General Kundt, old and broken, was promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda had managed to wriggle through the encircling Paraguayans and escape with 3,000 men. The Government made him a Brigadier General, handed him the nation's defense. Meanwhile at the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo, Paraguay proposed...