Thousands Dead
GRAN CHACO FIGHTING LASTING PEACE SOUGHT (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Dec. 20, 9.15 p.m. MONTE VIDEO, Dee. 19. Along the 300-ihile front in the subequatorial wilderness of the Gran Chaco, over which Bolivia and Paraguay have been in dispute for more than 50 years, firing ceased at. midnight on Tuesday as a result of the armistice, which will be effective until the end of the year. In the last 17 months 150,000 soldiers have battled. Thirty thousand have died, 20,000 have been taken prisoner, and there have been unnumbered thousands of casualties from bullets, dysentery, scurvey and typhus. Tho truce is being arranged by the League of Nations, and a commission has been named to effect the peace, with the backing of President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay and the Pan-American republics, whose delegates are now in session here. • Expressions of the 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 301, 21 December 1933, Page 7
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177Thousands Dead Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 301, 21 December 1933, Page 7
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