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Show PARAGUAY REBELS MAKING PROGRESS i PARIS, Dec. 24. Paraguayan advices ad-vices to the Temps say the revolutionaries revolu-tionaries have been making considerable consid-erable progress throughout the republic re-public and as a consequence the provisional pro-visional president, Llberato Rojas. has called upon all the national guards and the reserves between the ages ot 17 and 50. The revolutionists now have sur rounded Asuncion, the capital. Brazil and Argentina have sent warships into Paraguayan waters, the commanders of which," at the request of the diplomatic corps, have given notification that they will not permit the bombardment of Asuncion or oilier oili-er fortified places. The government has sent the bishop of Asuncion to negotiate tcrrns with the revolutionary revolution-ary committee. which has organised a. provisional government headed by Dr. Emillano Gonzales Navero. At Pilar, on the Paraguay rlvor, ahout 112 miles from Asuncion, tho revolutionists have three warships, which were bought from tho Belgians. These are bolicved to bo the vossels which, it was reported recently were intonded for the Portuguse royalists It is reported thera aro dlssonslons among the revels, which loads the government to hope that an arrangement arrange-ment is possible. |