724.3415/513: Telegram
The Minister in Paraguay (Kreeck) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 7—8:20 a.m.]
26. Paraguayan Minister for Foreign Affairs informs me as follows:
Upon request of Investigating Commission for exact place of Vanguardia, the Paraguayan Government sent by aeroplane technicians with instruments to ascertain data and seek information cited in my despatch numbered 806.22 While making a survey at Vanguardia May 4th a number of Bolivian soldiers attacked the technicians. Again May 5th while the technicians were surveying, a force of Bolivian troops estimated at three hundred men fired upon them killing two of their horses. Technicians withdrew under orders not to provoke complications. Foreign Office considers incident grave.
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