CHACO CONFERENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 234, 3 October 1935, Page 5

CHACO CONFERENCE.

PLENARY SESSIONS HALT. SLOW PROGRESS. BUENOS AYRES, August 24. The slow-moving machinery of the Cliaco peace conference came to a full halt yesterday when the conference issued a communique announcing it had decided to hold no more plenary sessions until such time as some progress is made in some commission toward agreement on some one of the many questions under consideration. So far no progress had been made and the conference had not met for two weeks.

The commission on the exchange ami repatriation of war prisoners, headed by Hugh S. Gibson, the United States Ambassador to Brazil, has reached a stalemate and Mr. Gibson is departing to-day for Brazil. He said he expected to return after attending to matters which required his attention at the Rio de Janeiro Embassy, but he did not indicate the date of his return.

Both the Bolivian and Paraguayan delegations seem more interested in persuading the peace conference to adopt their respective interpretations of international law than in reaching a definite peace agreement.

Demobilisation has progressed much more rapidly than was planned, Bolivia having demobilised 18,815 men and Para- | guay 30,419.