Slaughter in Chaco
SOUTH AMERICAN WARFARE PARAGUAYANS TRAPPED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received June 24 7.10 p.m BUENOS AIRES, June 23. Thousands of Paraguayan soldiers, it was reported on Saturday, were trapped and slaughtered by Bolivian artillery fire, this coming as a climax to the seven-day Paraguayan drive against the Bolivian stronghold in the Chaco Boreal, Fort Ballivian. Communiques issued by Paraguay and Bolivia indicated that the fighting was the most terrible in 'the past two years of the jungle war.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19340625.2.54
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 7
Word Count
80Slaughter in Chaco Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 148, 25 June 1934, Page 7
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in