S. AMERICAN WAR
GRAN CHACO TRUCE Dispute Over 50 Years Old PERMANENT PEACE SOUGHT By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright MONTEVIDEO, December 19. Along a 300-mile front in the subequatorial wilderness of tho Gran Chaco, over which. Bolivia and Paraguay have been in dispute for more than 50 years, firing ceased at midnight on Tuesday as a result of an armistice which will be effective until the end of the year. In the last 17 months 150,000 soldiers have battled, of which number 30,000 died and 20.000 were taken prisoner, while unnumbered thousands are casualties as a result of bullets, dysentery, scurvy and typhus. As the truce is being arranged by the League of Nations, a commission has been named to effect a peace with the backing of President Gabriel Terra, of Uruguay, and the Pan-American republics whose delegates are now in session here. Expressions of the deepest joy are voiced on all sides. Bolivia and Paraguay, through their representatives, agreed with the Pan-American nations that the major objective of peace must be a permanent termination of tho dispute.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 9, 21 December 1933, Page 7
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