Monte Video, Dec. 10.
News received at the Mexican Legation here states that 80 soldiers, on both sides were killed in the Fecent engagement between Para guaran and Bolivian troops on the frontier, 'A quarrel has long existed between the two republics over the ownership of El Chaco, a fertile area 100,000 square miles in extent.
Intense enthusiasm for war is reported from La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, but Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, is quiet—Reuter, Washington, Dec. 10, No Pan-American Congress on Conciliation and Arbitration has appointed a special committee under the chairmanship of the United States Secretary of State, Mr. B. Kellorg, to devise means for conciliation' of the rupture between the republics of Bolivia ami Para-
Boliv in Warlike Mood Dee, 11, The Bolivian delegation has withdrawn from the special committee appointed yesterday by the Pan-American Congress for the purpose Of secking reconciliation of the rupture between the republics Paraguay and Bolivia on the ground that "Paruguay has not yet made suitable reparation for her alleged invasion of Boliv The Bolivian L that the Government of Bolivia "has taken precautionary measur dispensable in view of the ex: situation—bat has not mobilized its
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