S. AMERICAN WARS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1932, Page 5

S. AMERICAN WARS

■ BOLIVIANS AS HUNS ? COLOMBIA CHALLENGES PERU [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN - . —COPYBIGHT.] (Received September 20, Noon). 'NEW YORK, September 19. A message from Asuncion (Para-j giiay) states that the Ministry of War; to-day, charged the Bolivian troops at Fort Boqueron in Chaco, with decapitating the Paraguayan prisoners taken during the ten days’ battle, which has been raging there. Denying the reports of inhuman acts by Paraguayan troops, he said that a Bolivian plane bombed the Red Cross hospital, and riddled it with machine-gun fire, and that the Bolivians used explosive bullets, mutilating the bodies of the dead. \

A report from Bogota (Colombia) says that tens of thousands of Colombians clamoured to-day for war with Peru, and went to their pocket books and jewel cases to provide funds to finance it. The Senate on the second ■ reading, a Bill authorising the Government to arrange a credit of ten million dollars for national defence. The action followed the report of the seizure by Peruvian citizens of the Colombian port of Leticia on ths Amazon. Leticia was ceded to Colombia in the boundary treaty with Peru in 1922.

Although the Peruvian Government informed Colombia that so far as it knew, no Peruvian soldiers were involved in the seizure and that it was merely a regional affair, the milling crowds, which filled the streets of Bogota, shouted for war, and yelled. “Down with Sanchez Cerro,” whb is President of Peru.