The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-30

BoLiDi0 Has Changed GOUts. To SaUe Nation
Paraguayans Are Crushing Armess of BOlivia-Swift
 Coup By Bolivia to Stop Slaughter

La Paz, Bolivia, Nov 30-(UP)-- President Jose Luis Tejada Sorza : lso, raised to power by swift coup appealed to the army today to stand t against the advancing Paraguayan army in the Gran Ghaco and pledged his new coali- fion cabinet to work untiringly in the country's best interests.
 An official dispatch from Asun- ciOn, Paraguay, said that the Boli- vian army along the Pilcomayo river boundary of the Gran Chaco was in disorderly retreat along the entire front. General Joe Estigar- ribia. rcraguayan commander-in- chief, the dispatch said was push- ing on toward forts Cururenda ard { D'Orbigny, expecting to meet a desperate resistance there.)
 President Tejad;.. coalition gov hrnment is the first of it's sort in the country, and it represents an effort of leading personalities ot the liberal, national republican. so- Cia''~t republican and nationalist Garties to reorganize the entire ad- mir ,stration and prosecute the WAT with Paraguay vigorously.
 It's members were named last night and took their oaths at once in the present of the army general staff. It's makeup is:
 Foreign affairs-David Alveste- gui, national republican.
 Finance-Carlos Victor Aramayo national republican.
 Defense-Bautista Saavedra, so- cialist republican. .
 Communications - Jose Espada Aguirre, socialist republican.
 War-Juan Maria Zalles, liberal.
 Education-Enrique Baldivieso' nationalist.
 Cov -rnment-Tomas Manuel EEo liberal.
 President Tejada is liberal. He is 52. He was vice president under President Daniel Salamanca, who was deposed by coup Wednes- day while he was absent on visit to the Chaco region.
 General Enrique Peneranda, con- mander in chief of the Chaco army felegraphed his promise of ale glance to the new government, as SiId the governors of the eight pro- viEcial divisions of the country.
 
 heartily as the news was made pulp lie that the coalition cabinet had taken the oath of office.
 Reports abroad that the deposef President Salamanca was in the hands of army officers, and might face military trial with some of his cabinet ministers, was authorita- lively denied. It was said that Er Salamanca resigned formally in a message telephoned to the govern ment from Villa Montes, the army base at the north end of the Chaco. A aigned copy was brought here by airplane.
 Bolivians in Retreat
 Puenos Aires, Nov 3O-(UP)-- paraguayan reports that the boil vian army was in disorderly retreat along the Pilcomayo sector of the Gran Chaco fighting front indicat- ed today that the events which started with the resignation of President Daniel Salamanca of Bo- livia are but beginning.
 The victorious Paraguayans, fol- lowing up their capture of Fort Ballivian. the Gibraltar of the chaco, were report l advancing o1 forts Cururenda and D'Orbigrv.
 These are two of the main Boli- vian defenses between the Para guayans and their real objective the Bolivian army base at Villa Montes, key to the rich oil fields of the Chaco.
 General Jose Estigarribia, who took Ballivian and supporting forts fin brilliant strategic cand tactical move expects that the Bolivians, nearing their own territory and in- spired by the chance of government will make desperate fight at the next two forts.
 The present fighting zone is at the western side of the Chaco, along the Pilcomayo river which forms the boundary between the Chaco and neutral Argentina. The Eolivians are retreating northward with the Paraguayans in close pur- from the front.
 The next problem will be the possibility that the Bolivians may reform their army and make an- other stand such as that which held the Paraguayans south of Bal 1ivian for months.
 As the armies fought toward what seemed likely to be a defin- five end of the campaign as it has been conducted for months. the League of Nations seemed ap- preaching stage at which a truce might be possible, leaving the future of the Chaco to be de- fermined by arbitration.