HOSTILE COUNTRIES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11023, 20 December 1928, Page 3

HOSTILE COUNTRIES

ARMY OF PARAGUAY. United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ASCENSION December 17. Thirty thousand volunteers have been incorporated into the army. Three steamers, carrying large forces have left for an unnamed northern destination. Preparation® - for war are in evidence everywhere. Paraguay to-day accepted the offer of Mediation by the Pan-American conference, stating her mobilisation was for defensive purposes only. SPAIN’S ACTION. MADRID, December 17. As the. mother of both Bolivia and Paraguay and the spiritual head of the Spanish races, Spain is approaching both governments, says General de Riveriera. Both presidents have replied, paying tribute to the mother country’s sentiments. POPE SEEKS PEACE. ROME, December 17. Without seeking to interfere with pacificatory measures taken in other quarters, including the -League, the Pope is conferring with the Papal Nuncio at La Paz in the hope of preventing further fighting. He is unable to make representations to Paraguay as the Vatican has no diplomatic relations with that country. POLISH TRAGEDY. LONDON December 18. Four passengers were killed and several severely injured in a remarkable accident near Cxestoehowa on the line between Kaletz and Podzainexo, in Poland. It appears that, a railway employee at Kaletz had a feud with another official at the next station and notified his enemy that he was letting the train proceed. The second official ignored the message and let another train proceed in the cipnosite direction. There resulted a terrific head-on collision.