FIERCE BATTLE IN GRAN CHACO
♦ A BOLIVIAN TRAP THOUSANDS OF PARAGUAYANS KILLED (CHITED POKES ASSOCIATION—Bi' ELBtTBIO T COi'VIUOHT.) (Received June 24, 9.20 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, June 23. Thousands of Paraguayan soldiers were reported on Saturday to have been trapped and slaughtered by Bolivian artillery fire. This came as the climax to a seven-day Paraguayan drive against Fort Ballivian, the Bolivian stronghold in the Chaco Boreal. Couimuniques issued by Paraguay and Bolivia indicated that the fighting was the most tarrible in the two years of jungle war.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21199, 25 June 1934, Page 11
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