GRAN CHACO WAR
BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY CESSATION OF FIGHTING (United Press Association— By Electrio Teleeraph—Copyright) MONTE VIDEO, 19th December. Along a 300 mile front in the subequatorial wilderness of the Gran Chaco, over which Bolivia and 1 araquay have been in dispute for more than 50 years, firing ceased at midnight on Tuesday as the result of the iirni ' s ‘ tice which 'will be effective until the end of the year. In the last 17 moul' ,s 150,000 soldiers have battled. thirty thousand have died, 20,000 have been taken prisoner, and there have been unnumbered thousands of casualties Loin bullets, dysentery, scurvy and typhus. As the truce is being arranged by League of Nations a commission has been named to effect peace with the backing of President Gabriel Terra, or Uruguay, and the pan-American republics, whose delegates are now m session here. Expressions of the deepest joy are voiced oil,all sides in Bolivia anc Paraminv, though their representatives agreed with the pan-American nations that tlie major objective of peace must he tlie permanent termination of tlie dispute.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 December 1933, Page 7
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177GRAN CHACO WAR Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 December 1933, Page 7
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