FORMALLY DECLARED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 240, 11 May 1933, Page 5

FORMALLY DECLARED

War in South America PARAGUAYAN-BOLIVIAN DISPUTE ! "TREMENDOUS ENTHUSI, ASM" i I Press Association —Copyright Reed. Today, 1 p.m. Ascension (Paraguay), May 10. Paraguay today formally declared war against Bolivia. They have been engaged in an hitherto undeclared war in the Gran Chako border area since last I summer. President Eusebio Ayada, using fhe j authority recently voted him by Conj gress, signed the declaration at 11 I a.m. News of the signing provoked a j great demonstration. which soon i reached the streets. The celebrations | are the most widespread since hosj tilities began last June. Crowds forgI ed through the thoroughfare singing and cheering. A DISPUTE OF YEARS DEFINITE "SETTLEMENT HOPED ■hit I —; !<£• Press Association.—Copyright. Received Today, 2 p.m. Asuncion,- May 10. For the first time in 50 years the I Chako dispute has reached the formal j status of warfare, though for years j intermittent fighting nasi kept both I nations armed. Paraguay hopes that j formal declarations of neutrality by j Argentina, and Chile, and perhaps by ] Peru and Brazil will hamper the j Bolivian importation of supplies. Both nations are determined that j the present struggle shall result in. a . definite and permanent settlement of [ the Gran Chako strife. I Except for the belated entry of sev- ! oral South American nations into the i Groat War, this is the first declaraj Hon of war on the continent since j Bolivia fought Chile in 1879 over the ! nitrate fields.