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...three fronts in an encircling movement. His coterie of one-time German Army officers led the little brown men in hand-to-hand Indian fighting with the machete, instead of the modern warfare that had astounded South America around Munoz. Only an occasional bombing plane tried to find a Paraguayan in the bog. In the close wet heat, under clouds of hard-biting ihenni flies, the men fought in spasms, stopped to pant, slap and rest. Against Bolivia's German management, Paraguayans had French-trained Jose Estigarribia. Retreating, they left cemeteries on whose fast-rotting headboards were names...
...delegates representing Paraguay will be Comstock Glaser '35, Just Lunning 1G, S. M. Peyser '34, who will take the Paraguayan side of the Chaco dispute, J. G. Simonds '35, P. H. Singer '34, and W. F. Wolff...
...Model League's program will be a meeting of the Council on Economics, headed by Salant, at 8 o'clock Thursday evening, March 9. Simultaneously with this will be meetings of the Permanent Arms Commission and of the Conciliation Commission of American Neutrals, which will discuss the Bolivian-Paraguayan dispute in the Chaco...
...clock the next morning the reports of these committees will be transmitted to the Assembly and after that there will be a discussion of the action to be taken by the League in the Chaco Dispute. Since to the Harvard delegation has been assigned the task of supporting the Paraguayan side of the question, this event will be of vital interest to them. Then, at 10.30 o'clock will come the first formal meeting of the whole Assembly, at which the president and committee chairman will be elected...
Reporters last week noted tremendous artillery fire. Two Paraguayan attacks were beaten back. A Bolivian plane fought a Paraguayan plane (no decision) to the immense enjoyment of ground troops on both sides. Travelers reported boatloads of wounded passing up the Paraguay River to Asuncion. There were the usual complaints of bombing field hospitals, but strangely, war correspondents noted no atrocity stories, possibly because most of the soldiers of both armies are Indians, not quite sure what is an atrocity and what is fair fighting...