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...BASCH Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
After three months of marching and countermarching and a half-dozen major battles. Brazil's civil war ("bloodiest in South American History") ended last week. Rich, coffee-growing Sao Paulo lost its attempt to regain control of the Federal Government. General Bertholdo Klinger, No. 1 rebel, onetime chief of Rio de Janeiro police, laid down his arms. Colonel Herculaneo Carvalho headed a temporary military government for Sao Paulo state. No accurate casualty lists were published on either side. For Brazil as a whole the civil war has had one beneficial result: The blockade of the port of Santos boosted...
...Brazil. On at least three fronts "the bloodiest civil war in South American history'' neared the end of its third month, ferociously fought by more than 125.000 Brazilians behind a nearly air-tight censorship...
Travelers emerging from the United States of Brazil estimated that between 8,000 and 12.000 Brazilians have been killed, had no idea how many have been wounded since Sao Paulo State, ''The Heart of Brazil," raised her gory standard against Brazil's faintly perfumed but sufficiently ruthless Provisional President Getulio Vargas...
Bolivia v. Paraguay. In the sweltering, swampy, mosquito-infested Gran Chaco between Brazil and Paraguay a total of 1.250 soldiers of those nations have died in the recent war (TIME. Aug. 15), according to Bolivian official estimates last week...