St. Landry democrat., 1890-01-04
Central America.
A WAR CLOUD RISING.

Greytown, Nicaragua, letter to thu
New York Herald, under date of Dec.
has the following: All trouble in Costs
RIGA has been satisfactorily settled by thu
Punishment of Esquival, the would-be die
tator, and number of his immediate fol.
| lowers. On the other hand, learn tina
Guatemala and Salvador will soon locF
horns in a war which will disrupt any
sembance of formation of the ''Unltec
| States of Central America, and which may
bring about serious complications between
| other nations.
Guatemala, it appears, is determined tc
change the government of Salvador and
will try by force of arms to replace Saliva,
doris president, General Francisco Menen-
dez, by placing General Camille Alvarez in
power, the plea for this proposed change
| being that Menendez is not as pliable to
| the wishes of Guatemala as the latter re-
| public desires, and it is admitted on all
| sides that OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to dominate
| over the Central American republics. Con-
sequently it is expected that war between
Guatemala and Salvador will soon be de-
clared, the first named republic being
backed up in it's nefarious designs by Hon
duras. [ have even heard it announced
that hostilities will commence early in
January. The result is doubtful, as Sal
vador will act entirely on the defensive,
and if hard pressed will apply to the
United States for protection.
Salvador can muster about 70, 600 tight
ing men, well armed with German repeat
ing rifles These men are said to be fair
soldiers Salvador recently borrowed
81 500 900 in London to pay off an old debt
due to the Barring Brothers and to con-
struct railroad from Ateos to the capital,
San Salvador, consequently her credit is
good and her bonds were recently quoted
at S5 General Francisco Menendez will
command Salvador's army.
Guatemala, on the other hand, can put
80, 600 men in the field, but they are not so
well armed or not so well disciplined as
the troops of Salvador. General Camille
Alvarez, the gentleman who aspires to be
Gautemala's president of Salvador, will
command Gautemala's army of invasion.
Honduras expected to send her army
5000 badly armed men-to support Gaute.
mala in her war against Salvador. The
Honduras troops will be commanded by
General Longino Sanchez. This state of
affairs, following close upon the widely
trumpeted formation of the alleged United
States of Central America, shows how vol
canic is the state of affairs in these lati-
tudes and how useless it is to expect any
thing like peace and prosperity among the
Central American republics until some
radical change takes place in the whole
system.
Intermixed with the above rumoTs is
revival of the report that Mexico is tired
of Guatemals's chickering's and chickering's,
and it is again announced that Mexico will
seize upon the first convenient pretext to
swoop down upon Central America and
gather in Guatemala, Honduras and Sal
vador before any power can interfere in
the case.
l know beyond any question of doubt
that a British steamship sailing from New
York quite recently touched at Belize,
British Honduras, took on board five
strange looking Mexicans, who looked like
officers in disguise, and then landed these
men and fifty tons of rifle and cannon gun
powder at Livingston, Guatemala. OF
course this powder may have been intended
for use in the coming war between CT ~
mala and Salvador, but it seems str 81
that five Mexicans should be escortSas
these munitions of war. E