NOTICE TO LEAGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 183, 4 August 1932, Page 7

NOTICE TO LEAGUE.

Obliged to Offer Energetic Defence. BOLIVIA'S POINT OF VIEW. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LAPAZ, August 3. The Bolivia Foreign Office informed the League of Nations on Wednesday that Bolivia does not decline pacific means for a solution of the controversy with Paraguay over the Gran Chaco territory. ' Responding to tie League communications asking that war be averted the Government recited its version of the conflict, concluding that these facts place Paraguay outside the law and oblige her to defend herself energetically.

A Washington message says that Bolivia and Paraguay have been requested to end the hostilities and to submit to neutral proposals to avoid war in a joint Note signed on Wednesday by representatives of the United States and 18 other American Republics.

ACTION BY POWERS. SOLICITATIONS FOR PEACE. (British Official Wireless.). (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, August 3. It was announced by the Foreign Office this evening that the Acting-Secretary-General of the League of Nations has suggested that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the French, German, Italian and Spanish Governments should support, through their diplomatic channels, the appeal issued on August 1 by the President o, the League Council to the Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay. The British representatives at La Paz and Asuncion have been instructed to inform the Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay that the Government in the United Kingdom is anxious to give all possible support to the appeal of the President of the Council and to the moderating action of the friendly nations of the Assembly. The Government in the United Kingdom has informed the United States Government of the above action.

ARGENTINA NEUTRAL. FORCE SENT TO BORDER. (Received 11 a.m.) TUCUMAN (Argentina), August 3. Twenty battalions of Argentine infantry and one battalion of engineers were ordered on Wednesday to proceed to the Bolivian frontier to maintain Argentine neutrality in the BolivianParaguayan dispute. .