GUATEMALAN CALL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22582, 10 March 1948, Page 5

GUATEMALAN CALL

ALL-AMERICAN FRONT BRITISH POSSESSIONS (10 a.m.) GUATEMALA, March 9. Guatemala today joined Argentina and Chile in a call for all-American action against British territorial claims in the Western Hemisphere. The Guatemalan Government submitted to the Pan American Union a draft resolution to be submitted to the coming inter-American conference In Bogota, Colombia, calling for a united front by all 21 American nations “against the presence of British warships and military forces in the American security zone.” Guatemalan troops, with full field equipment, were flown in ■ transport planes into the Petan are. 3 yesterday to strengthen the guard near the British Honduras frontier, says the Associated Press correspondent at Flores, Guatemala. The troops landed on airfields that had been hacked out of the jungle in a region accessible only by plane. The centre of the troop concentration apparently will be Flores, a town of 7000 on an island in Lake Peten. The soldiers will be distributed among the tiny garrisons throughout the jungle officers said that to avoid frontier incidents the garrisons directly adjoining the border would not be augmented. , , The correspondent, referring to the Guatemalan report that 1500 British troops had been sent to the Guatemalan border, which was denied by the British authorities, says he walked a considerable distance along the border yesterday and later flew over the area but did not see a single soldier jn British Honduras or signsoftroo£s__encampments.