PEACE AT LAST

Southland Times, Issue 25311, 14 June 1935, Page 7

PEACE AT LAST

CHACO REGION BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY END OF A BITTER WAR DELIRIOUS REJOICING ' (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) Buenos Aires, June 12. The signing of the peace protocol in connection with Chaco region occurred amidst affecting scenes. The Foreign Ministers, Senor Elio (Bolivia) and Dr Riart (Paraguay), embraced,, weeping, at the end of the signing ceremony in the Argentinian Presidential Palace at Casa Rosada. Senora Elio, who has four sons at the front, and Senora Riart, who has three, also embraced tearfully amid general handshaking and congratulations. To-night every South American capital is en fete at the end of a long, bitter, bloody war with the celebrations reaching the peak of delirium in Asuncion and Lapaz. The glad news was flashed to weary troops in the Chaco who face only 48 more hours of the peril which has sent over 100,000 of their brothers to death in the past years of jungle warfare. Seventeen previous efforts at mediation and conciliation between the combating Powers had failed to end this greatest conflict in the Western Hemisphere since the American Civil War.