Evening star., 1932-08-02
PARAGUAY RUSHING
TO ARMS AS NATION
.MOB|UzES TROOPS
General Concentration Or
dered as Government Acts
to Oppose Bolivia.
NOTE OF COMPLAINT
FILED WITH LEAGUE
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Reports Say Second Fort in Gran
Chaco Region Menaced in
Border Dispute.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associate Press
ASUNCION, Paraguay, August a.
Hundreds of Paraguayan youths swarm
ed around army headquarters today and
clamored to be the first enlisted in the
general mobilization against Bolivia,
authorized by Congress last night
The young men, eager to join the
armed resistance decided upon as a re-
suit of Bolivian attacks on Paraguayan
forts in the long g-disputed Gran Chaco
region, refused to await the govern
ment's call upon them for service.
Thousands of trained troops were
moved from their barracks to other
quarters to make room for the new en-
listments. Military cadets marched
through the streets, lined with huge,
excited and milling crowds, demanding
to be sent to the war" area. They
filed up to the residence Of President
Jose P. Giggiari and cheered his action
In deciding to defend the country.
Note to League of Nations.
Events moved rapidly after the deci-
sion of Congress to mobilize the mill
tary and economic resources of the
country last night.
Plans to call the army and navy re-
serves were rushed. In the meantime.
Foreign Minister Higinio Arbo sent a
note to the League Of Nations Council
declaring Bolivia had violated Artisles
10 and IL of the League covenant,
which requires members to respect the
peace nd territorial integrity Of other
members.
Besides the news of the attack on
Fort Boqueron, one of Paraguay's i'm
portant Strongholds in Chaco territory,
the government also heard that the Bo-
livians were marching on Fort Islapoi,
which also has figured in the 60-year-
old dispute between the two nations
over the wild, swampy, mostly un-
mapped territory which forms their
boundary line.
'As member of the distinguished
international institution" the foreign
minister said in his note to the League,
Paraguay calls attention to the COM
mission by Bolivia of hostile acts. with
out explanations or a declaration Of
war,
Denies Bolivian Charge.
When the attack on Fort Bogado
by the Bolivians was repulsed on July
rs the Bolivian chancellor falsely al
legged that Paraguay had attacked (the
Bolivian) Fort Florida, which does not
exist"
Reviewing the attacks on Forts Cor
rales, Toledo, Martinez, Islapoi and
Boqueron, the note added that such
conduct does not become a nation be-
longing to the League"
Paraguay was willing to submit the
controversy to arbitration, the foreign
minister said, and accepted an offer OF
neutral nations to make an investiga-
tion of the Midjuly incidents, but
military hostilities developed in the
meantime.
Economic pressure and the need for
both nations to expand have aided in
bringing the cid issue to the danger
point again. Although the Chaco is 4
vast jungle. consisting of thousands of
square miles between the Pilcomayo
and Paraguay Rivers, it is also poten-
TALLY one of the richest areas in the
world.
Bolivia Land-lOcked
Bolivia has been land-locked ever
since she was pushed back from the
Pacific by Chile. The Paraguay River,
along the west bank of which Paraguay
has built her settlements and strung
her forts is navigable, while the Pilco-
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