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...sign with Argentina and Brazil. Paraguay's signature was taken to mean that she wants to stop fighting her everlasting war with Bolivia over the Gran Chaco (TIME, July 17 et ante). Bolivia's refusal to sign indicated her resolve to battle on under German General Hans Kundt. Because the League of Nations has not yet finished adjudicating the Leticia dispute between Peru and Colombia which brought those nations to war (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.) they refused to sign last week, as did Ecuador which adjoins the Leticia region and hopes to have a finger...
...than a month. Paraguayan soldiers, backed against their Verdun, a hummock topped by French-built Fort Nanawa, have had nothing to do but scratch hard-biting Chaco lice. In far-off Geneva, where they could not see the smile on the face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep and dark as if for silver, copper...
Last week when the League of Nations was almost ready to arbitrate, General Kundt's mines were entirely finished. His sappers, tunneling under the Paraguayan positions, had sewn them thick with dynamite. To England, France, Italy, Spain and Mexico the League dispatched requests that each appoint an arbiter, announced that the arbitral board would be constituted within ten days. General Kundt was quicker than that. Bram! went his mines. The earth heaved. Paraguayan soldiers were lofted into the air like so many clods...
...General Kundt sent tanks and flame throwers clattering into the Paraguayan shambles. As Bolivian troops poured in. thousands of little brown men fought back & forth in furious hand-to-hand combat. The sun went down and the moon came up. Two outlying Paraguayan forts were raked by merciless Bolivian machine gun fire. Paraguayans, famed as South America's fiercest fighters with bayonet and machete, rallied under the leadership of White Russian commanders, a stiff match for Bolivia's German officers under General Kundt. Soon in the jungle grass 2,000 men lay dead. Above & below Fort Nanawa...
...country as people think: many of the boys back on leave are enthusiastic and want to settle there after this war, which can have only one ending-either recognition of obvious Paraguayan rights or Paraguay forcing Bolivia slowly to "git" even if it took ten years to do it-Kundt or no Kundt. The Chaco is studded all along its coast by prosperous townships-Villa Hayes (so named in honor of U. S. President Charles Rutherford Hayes), Puerto Pinasco (American company), Puerto Casado, Puerto Sastre, etc. Extensive cattle ranges with Hereford and Shorthorn strains go for hundreds of kilometres into...