FRONTIER BATTLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 533, 10 December 1928, Page 9

FRONTIER BATTLE

BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY A GARRISON SURPRISED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) LONDON, Sunday. A message from La Faz, Bolivia, says the Paraguayan Charge d’Affaires has been given liis passport and has started under a guard for Peru. The President of Bolivia, Dr. Hernando Siles, has suspended the municipal election because of the situation created by a frontier clash on Friday, when Paraguayan cavalry are said to have attacked a Bolivian outpost. Popular demonstrations occurred and three cavalry squadrons were placed about the Paraguayan Legation.

Negotiations have been in progress for some time for a settlement of the boundary dispute. The Bolivian Government, in a statement, discloses that Paraguay requested that the Committee of Inquiry provided for by the PanAmerican Conference in 1923 should investigate the incident. Bolivia replied that she was prepared to consider arbitration, but would not consider any conciliatory procedure which did not provide for prior full reparation for the outrage. The statement says Fort Vanguardia. with a garrison of 35 men. was surprised and attacked by 300 cavalry and infantry, who captured and burned it. Most of the garrison were killed and the survivors were taken prisoner. The Bolivian Legation has been withdrawn from Paraguay.