DISPUTED TERRITORY
AMERICAN REPUBLICS AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE HOSTILITIES AVERTED (Received July 10. 5.5 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, July 9 Delegates from Paraguay and Bolivia to-day initialled an agreement to arbitrate on the Gran Cliaco dispute, thus removing a very grave threat to peace on the American continent. Statesmen in numerous American Republics, and in the United States, have been working for three years to achieve a peaceable settlement and prevent a renewal of a sanguinary war.
The ownership of the Gran Chaco, an interior plain between Bolivia and Paraguay, north of the Pilcomayo River, and west of the Paraguay, has been in dispute for more than a century. War broke out in 1925, and defied all settlement until 19.'!5, when neighbouring Republics and the United States effected a truce. A cablegram from Buenos Aires on June 29 stated that a new war over the territory threatened to break out between Bolivia and Paraguay. Both countries were spending large sums on arms, in expectation of hostilities.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23086, 11 July 1938, Page 9
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