TOWN BLOTTED OFF THE MAP.
« n;ew zealakdkhs in the VIOI.VITV. A. cable message in The Domimo* yesterday morning recorded tho faofc flint ft, :jiiaga74no TOntaifting.Bsdo'' Bases oif dyimmito had, exploded at dallapatiij 'A "lining centre iir Bolivia, and that tho toft'iv had been blotted off the. map. Callapata is ail important- provincial centre on Lake Pp.opo, «n intermediate station on iho Aufofogasta-La Pax railway, a linn noted for its high elevation. At 0110 point on its passage of the Andes it . rises to 13,(/0(J foot. . Tiro town o.f Callapata in 50 rtiilca from Siiil .Pedro do Bileiia Vista., a, vil> Ir-IW which is at .present ilie headquarters of the Bolivian Indian Mission, ■the members of which, with Mfc, George Allan a? director, aro nearly all Xe>v Zea landers, engaged in evangelical work nmimgs't tiro .QuechKvspca.king Indians, a relic of the Inca civilisation.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2017, 26 March 1914, Page 4
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