The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-21
THE PARAGUAYAN WAR.
The Agreement Between tho Allied Powers
for the Withdrawal of Portion of the
TrOOps from ParaRuaY,

The Agreement Between tho Allied Powers
for the Withdrawal of n Portion of the
Troops from Paraguay.
At an interview held in the city of Asuncion,
Paraguay, on November "a, 1869, between the
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine
republic, DR.. Dom Mariana Varela, and Coun-
sellor Dom Jose Maria de Silva Paranhos, En-
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotenti-
airy of Brazil, on special mission, an arrange
ment was entered into to settle the proposal
made by the Argentine Government for the
reduction of the respective forces in the opera
tions in Paraguay.
The Argentine Minister stated that thanks to
the successive triumphs gained by the allied
forces, by which the enemy had become re-
duced to an insignificant number OF soldiers,
who could not offer any serious resistance, and
who were hidden in the woods and deserts his
Government believed that the opportune mo-
ment had arrived for diminishing the heavy
charges that the three nations had been hitherto
supporting, both in the expenses incurred by
the war and the absorption of so many of the in
habitants. He acknowledged that for his Gov
ernment this measure was not q convenience that
could easily be dispensed with, but q necessity
urgently called for by the present circumstances
in respect to the Argentine republic, necessity
that it would only disregard in the event that
the intentions of the alliance demanded it, which
had been previously demonstrated by che act of
restoring the operative forces for the attack on
Piribebug and Azcurra, which forces had been
definitely withdrawn. That the Oriental Gov
ernment not only agreed to the proposed reduc-
ton, but also most willingly withdrew its former
decision SO as to allow the retirement of the
entire Oriental division, as shown by its note
addressed to the Argentine Government under
date of the Sd inst.
The Brazilian Minister declared that his gov
ernment was fully as anxious as its allies to
lessen the great sacrifices imposed upon it by
the existing war, and being informed of the
dispositions entertained by the Argentine and
the Oriental governments, 1t has hastened to
authorize the desired arrangement, always pro-
vided that Count dEu, General-in-Chiet of the
Brazilian forces, did not see any serious reason,
in the present state of the campaign, why
the allied forces should not be reduced.
Fortunately such measures perfectly coincided
with that Princes views, and therefore
the Minister adhered with pleasure to the
measure in question. Allowing In princi-
pie the convenience of reduction in the
allied forces, the ministers agreed that the
quantutn, as far as the Argentine and Brazilian
forces were concerned should be submitted TO
the views of the respective generals in chief. At
the same time the Argentine Minister declared,
that in reference to the import of article two of
the treaty of the Triple Alliance, and the fact
of the chief part of the Argentine army being
in the field, his Government desired the imme-
date Withdrawal of the National Guard; and the