Show BOLIVIA LINES UP WITH I SOUTH AMERICAN STATE HANDS PASSPORTS TO GERMAN MINISTER MINISTER MINISTER MIN MIN- ISTER AND HIS STAFF Was First of Our Southern Neighbors Neighbor S Sto i to Announce Its Support of the United States in Protesting Ag Against German Blockade La Paz Bolivia The German Gennan minister and his staff were on April Apri I 13 handed their passports by the Bolivian Bo Bo- livian government a note declaring de claring daring that diplomatic relations between be be- between between tween Bolivia and Germany have hav e been severed Bolivia was the first South Amerlean American Amer ican lean state to announce its support of 0 I Ithe the United States in La protesting against t the German submarine blockade Ina In Ina Ii 3 a note to the German government under un L- L der date of ot February 8 the Bolivian Li i denounced the German blockade block bloch ade proclamation as an infringement t of the rights of civilization civil civili ration and humanity and declared that it consolidates its attitude with that of the United States govern govern- ment The Bolivian press unanimously unanimously supported the position of the government Bolivia is one of the of ot the South American states with an area of square miles and a population population tion of a little more than It has no merchant marine or navy b but t thas has an army with a war strength of ol which is credited being one of the best trained and equipped in Latin LaUn |