GREATEST BATTLE YET
GRAN CHACO STRUGGLE PARAGUAYAN ATTACK NEW YORK, May 19. The New York Times’ Buenos Aires correspondent says that while the League of Nations and Mr. Roosevelt ate making belated efforts . to halt the Gran Chaco war, reports from the battlefront declare that the Bolivian and Taragiuayan forces for a week have been deadlocked in the greatest battle of the two-year-old struggle. Fort Ballivian, Bolivia’s headquarters on the Pilcomayo River, is the right wing of a 20-mile battlefront, on which 60,000 to 80,000 men are enraged. Paraguay is attacking viciously with dver ICO 75 and 105 millimetre guns, directed by the air force, and hope to dislodge the Bolivians before expected reserves arrive. Reports do not estimate the extent of the casualties, but speak of repeated Paraguayan infantry • chargee (being mowed down by Bolivian machine gun nests. It is estimated that three times as many combatants are involved as in any previous engagement. ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 21 May 1934, Page 7
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