PEACE IN THE GRAN CHACO
PARAGUAY-BOLIVIAN TRUCE.
WAR IN WILDERNESS CEASES. 'i By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. Montevideo, Dec. 19. Along the 300-mile froht in the subequatorial wilderness of Gran Chaco, over which Bolivia' and Paraguay have been in dispute for more than 50 years, firing ceased at midnight to-night as the result of an armistice which will be effective until the'end'of ’the year. In the past 17 months 150,000 soldiers have battled. Thirty . thousand . died, 20,000 were taken prisoner, and there were unnumbered thousands of casualties to bullets, dysentery, scurvy and typhus. ’ , As the truce is being arranged by the League of Nations a commission has been named to effect peace with the backing of President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay and the pan-American Republics, whose delegates are now in session here. Expressions of deepest joy are voiced on all sides. Bolivia and Paraguay through their representatives have agreed with the pan-American nations that the major objective of the peace must be a permanent termination of the dispute.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1933, Page 5
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