The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-03-12
BRITISH At BLUEFIELDS
Why the Blue Jackets Invaded the
Mosquito Reservation.
NATIVES APPEAL FOR PROTECTION,

They Feared Violence at the Hands Of
an Armed Force OF Nioaraguans who
Had Raised the NIoaraguan Flag over
the Public Buildings.
SAVANNAH, March 12.-The report of the
landing of the British at Bluefields, in the
Mosquito reservation, was confirmed yes
terday by the arrival Of the steamer FL
liot, Captain A. Brown.
The Elliot, which is British steamer,
left Bluefelds Sunday morning, March 4.
She arrived there Feb, q, just one day too
late to witness the arrival of the Nicar-
aguans. Captain Brown says the Nicar-
aguans entered Bluefelds Feb. 25 and 20.
He did not know their exact number, but
there was an armed force Of four or five
hundred of them at Bluefelds when he
arrived. They brought no cannon with
them. They simply entered under arms
and without any resistance on the part Of
the natives They hoisted the Nicaraguan
flag over the custom house and over the
other public buildings. The flags remained
| up during the time the Elliot was in port.
i There was no fighting.
! The Mosquitoes were considerably terri
fed by the presence of so large an armed
| force, as they were practically without
| protection in the city. Captain Brown says
the reports that reached this country with
regard to the name of the British warship
| there are in error. 1t is not the Cleopatra,
( he says, but the Tamar. The Mosquitoes,
he states, fearing they might be attacked
| by the Nicarauguans, appealed to the
| Tamar for protection. Thursday March
| 1, the lamar, without any authority from
I the British government, as they had not
had time to get any such authority, sent
! three boatloads of armed men ashore
Captain Brown did not know the exact
number of men, but between eighty and
one hundred were landed They were
armed with carbines and cutlasses.
The men went ashore in the steam
launch of the man-of-war, and carried
/ with them two Gatling guns and three
field pieces. The British did not land al
Bluetields but at Bluefelds Bluff, about
four or five miles northwest of the city
There was some understanding between
the Mosquito chief and the officer il
charge of the lamar, the chief asking
that the men be landed for the safety anC
protection of his people,
The British soldiers went into Bluefieldi
from the bluff several times while Cap
tain Brown was there. They could not g
by land, but had to use the steam launch
on which they carried one of the Gatlint
guns. The was no fight of any kind be
tween March 1, the day the men landed
and March 4, the day the Elliot sailed
Captain Brown says there was little eX
citement among the people. The Mos
quitos We're somewhat frightened whel
the Nicaraguans first entered, but afte
the landing of the British troops all eX
| citement subsidized, and the people seeme
willing to rest easy and let things go O
as they were until the trouble between tn
Indians and the Nicaraguans is settled.
The Nicaraguans, of course, objected
the landing of the British troops, an
charged the British officers with an ope
violation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
Little attention was paid to this by TIA
British. The Nicaraguans wanted theI
to stick to the terms on the treaty.
The lamar sailed from Bluefelds o
Thursday night for Colon for the pun
pose of cabling to England for advices. l
the meantime the troops We're left in cam
at Bluefelds Bluff. The lamar returne
/ to Bluefelds late Saturday night CaI
tain Brown did not learn the result of th
correspondence with the English depar
ment of foreign affairs, as he was fifty {
sixty miles away from Blueficlds and di
not land there again before leaving Sun
day morning. When he left the soldier
were still in camp at the bluff.