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Show CIVILIANS KILLED II ' Bflffli'iGS I Controversy Reaches Crisis After Ultimatum ASCUNCION, Paraguay,. : May 10 (U.R) Paraguay de-' de-' dared war on Bolivia today. ! It was the 'first formal ! declaration of war since Guatemala Gua-temala declared war on the central powers in 1918. Nineteen nations of the ' Noilli American hemisphere warned warn-ed I ho two belligerents last August. Unit t hey would not recognize territorial ter-ritorial gajns won ly force of arltirf. Paraguay, whieh took the forma p.teji of war today, is an adherent of Ihe Kellogg pad, whieh binds nations not to resort to war as an instrument of national policy. Issues Ultimatum The conflict was brought to a new crisis in the last week when President Eusebio Ayala o Para-guayi Para-guayi who signed the declaration today, announced that if the Bolivians Boliv-ians continued to bomb Paraguyan towns "the defenseless population will sacrifice lives those of Bolivian Boliv-ian prisoners in retaliation." Bolivia reported if Paraguay ! killed a single Bolivian prisoner, Bolivian military planes would bombard the capital, Ascunsion, ; and other Paraguayan cities. Bolivian planes last week drop- j ped bombs at. Porta Pinasco and Casado on the Paraguay river, killing kill-ing seven civilians and endanger- 1 ing American and other foreign 1 property. |