Paraguay Mobilises For War Against Bolivia Following Encounter On Frontier.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18639, 17 December 1928, Page 10

Paraguay Mobilises For War Against Bolivia Following Encounter On Frontier.

ALL MEN BETWEEN AGE OF EIGHTEEN AND TWENTY-EIGHT CALLED TO THE COLOURS. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) 4 (Received December 17, 9.30 a.m.) ASUNCION, December 16. THE Paraguayan Government has officially announced the mobilisation of all men between eighteen and twenty-eight years of age. The population received the news with great excitement. Mobilisation followed the capture of a Paraguayan fort by Bolivian troops.—Australian Press Association.

LEAGUE SENDS NOTE TO BOTH COUNTRIES.

(Received December 17, 12.15 p.m.) RUGBY, December 16. Regarding the dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay, the League Council yesterday agreed on the text of a Note to these two countries and decided to send copies of the correspondence to all States which are members of the League, and also to non-member States on the American continent. M. Briand, as president of the Council, was invited to keep in touch with the situation and, if necessary, to sum-

mon an extraordinary meeting of the Council. ' The Council’s Note underlines Bolivia’s declaration that she will not depart from her obligations under the League Covenant and Paraguay’s assurance faithfully to fulfil her obligations and to accept any procedure for the settlement of a dispute. Attention is drawn to the fact that States cannot without breaking their engagements, fail to have recourse to one or other of the procedures provided in the Covenant, whose terms are cited with special reference to articles 12 and 13 The two Governments are also warned of the importance of carefully limiting their measures of self-defence in such manner that they could not be interpreted as aggressive.—Australian Press Association.