FIRING CEASES
BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY TEMPORARY TRUCE ARRANGED 50-YEAR-OLD DISPUTE (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.j (Rec. 7 p.m.) Montevideo, December 19. Along a 300-mile front in the subequatorial wilderness of the Gran Chaco region, 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. Thirty thousand died, 20,000 were taken prisoner and there were unnumbered thousands of casualties from bullets, dysentry, scurvy and typhus. As the truce was being arranged by the League of Nations Commission appointed to effect peace with the backing of President Gabriel Terra, of Uruguay and the Pan-American republics, whose delegates are now in session, expressions of deepest joy were voiced on all sides.
Bolivia and Paraguay, through their representatives, agreed with the panAmerican nations that the major objective of the truce must be a permanent termination of the dispute.
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Southland Times, Issue 22203, 21 December 1933, Page 5
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