FIRING CEASES IN GRAN CHACO
PEACE AFTER YEARS OF WARFARE JOYFUL VOICES WELCOME ARMISTICE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 20. 7.0 p.m.) MONTE VIDEO. December 19. Along a 300-mile front, in the subequatorial wilderness of Gran Chaco, over which Bolivia and Paraguay have been in dispute for more than fifty years, firing ceased at midnight on Tuesday, as the result of an armistice which will be effective until the end of the year. In the last seventeen months 150,000 soldiers have battled; 30,000 have died, and 20.000 have been taken prisoner. Unnumbered thousands have been casualties from bullets, dysentery, scurvy and typhus. As the truce is being arranged by the League of Nations Commission, named to effect peace, with the backing of President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay, and the Pan-American Republics, whose delegates are now in session, there were expressions of deepest joy, voiced on all sidfcs.
Bolivia and Paraguay, through their representatives agreed with the PanAmerican nations that the major objective of peace must be the permanent termination of the dispute.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19678, 21 December 1933, Page 9
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174FIRING CEASES IN GRAN CHACO Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19678, 21 December 1933, Page 9
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