Paraguay Mobilising

Evening Star, Issue 20051, 17 December 1928, Page 6

Paraguay Mobilising

ANNOUNCEMENT BY GOVERNMENT POPULATI6N GREATLY EXCITED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, ASUNCION, December 16. (Received December 17, at 9.30 a.m.) The Paraguayan Government has officially announced the mobilisation of all men between eighteen and twenty-eight years of age. The population received tho news with great excitement. Mobilisation followed the capture of the Paraguayan fort by Bolivians.—Australian Press Association. LEAGUE COUNCIL’S NOTE STATE’S 'OBLIGATIONS EMPHASISED. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, December 16. (Received December 17, at noon.) Regarding the dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay, the League Council yesterday agreed on the text of a Note to these two countries, and decided to send copies of the correspondence to all the States which are members of the League, and to the nonmember States on American contingent, M. Briand, as president of the council, was invited to keep in touch with the situation, and, if necessary, to summon an extraordinary meeting of the council. The Council’s Note underlines Bolivia’s declaration that she will not depart from, her obligations under tho League Covenant, and Paraguay’s assurance faithfully to fulfil her obligations and to accept any procedure for a settlement of dispute. Attention is drawn to the fact that the States cannot, without breaking their engagements, fail to have recourse to one or other of the procedures provided in tho covenant, the terms of which are cited with special reference to Articles 12 and 13, The two Governments are also warned of the importance of carefully limiting their measures of self-defence in such a manner that they could not bo interpreted as aggressive.