OPEN WARFARE
COLOMBIA AND PERU
MINISTERS WITHDRAWN
FIGHTING. ON AMAZON
Ontted Press Association—Bj* Electric TeleGraph—Copyright. (Received February 16, S a.m.) BOGOTA, February 15. It was unofficially reported late on Tuesday that Colombian troops captured tho town of Tarapaca on the Putumayo River in the vicinity of the city of Leticia, pver which the countries have been in dispute since September. The .Colombian Government has ordered its Minister, Seuor Fabio Lozano, jun., at Lima, Peru, to demand passports for his departure from that country. * The aerial bombardment of a Colombian gunboat iri the Putumayo River and the recapture by the Colombians of the town of Tarapaca fanned info open warfare on Tuesday the hostilities which had been smouldering for months between Peru and Colombia over the border city of Leticia. The Colombian J?oreign Office on Wednesday handed passports to the personnel of the Peruvian Legation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1933, Page 11
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