Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-06-03
AN ERA OF PROSPERITY
Has Superseded the Gloomy Forebod-
ings Of War In Nicaragua.
Timely Evacuation Of Corinto
by the British
Has the Means Of Avoiding a Still Further
Complicated Row.

WASHINGTON, June ESPECIAL corre
srondcnoe from Managua, under date
ofMay IL, gives the following information;
Mercantile and all other kinds Of bust
ness Ia Nicaragua appear to have revived
to their former activity since the evacua.
tion Of tho island of Corinto by the Brit.
ish, and many Of the soldiers, volunteers
and enlisted men In Nicaragua's army for
defense against British advance into her
territory have returned to their usual oc-
cupations.
The government, however, is actively
preparing To submit to arbitration all
questions at issue between Nicaragua and
Great Britain that have arisen out of Mic
aragua's successful efforts in 1893 and
1894 to maintain her sovereignty over the
Mosquito reservation.
IL Is claimed by the irritated people
here that Admiral Stephenson and sew
eral of his officers, when at CorintO, on
April 23, just before they took armed pos
session Of that port and island, publicly
declared TO many persons, among whom
was W. Il. Tisdale, a United States citi-
zen and the agent for the Pacific Mail
Steamship company, that the Monroe
doctrine, so often referred to In the
United States press and by that people, is
a myth that the United States would not
and could not, If they desired, enforce"
and it is added that the British officers as
serted that the occupation Of Corinto was
intended TO test the question. 1t should
be said in conclusion, however, that 1t has
been denied that there was any truth in
the story that the British officers made
such statements.
Marrow Escape.
IL is known that IL the British had
occupied Corinto little longer than they
did, they would have been able to capture
a British steamer, the Debay, which ar
rived there on May Is, loaded with a
full supply of modern and improved field
artillery, rifles, equipments and ammuni-
tion for about 5000 officers and soldiers of
the Nicaraguan army, and Admiral Steph-
enson would thus have been able to col
lect the 800 claimed by Great Britain
as an indemnity from Nicaragua without
any difficulty.
1t Is considered more than likely that
Admiral Stephenson would have seized
and detained the Debay until the indem-
nifty was paid, and therefore there Is
great deal of rejoicing here at it's escape,
forit would have made an admirable substi-
tute for the port and customs dues Of
Corinto, which the British admiral was
prevented from collecting by the fact that
the Nicaraguan government declared the
port closed shortly after it was occupied
by the British.
Nobody here doubts that had the British
admiral captured this supply Of war ma
terial and satisfied Great Britain's claim
against Nicaragua by its sale, that the act
would have so thoroughly humiliated the
present government of Nicaragua as to
have caused its overthrow, at once, by
revolution among the people. 1t Is not
doubted that Admiral Stephenson could
have taken possession of the Delays cargo,
in spite of the fact that the steamer was
under the British flag, as the war material
was purchased in Germany, in 1894, by the
present government of Nicaragua.
People here insist that Great Britain |
was desirous of obtaining "coaling sta
ton" on the island Of Corinto and an
other ''coaling station" on Corn island,
near the Atlantic entrance to tho proposed |
canal through Nicaragua,
and thus Great Britain would have been |
able to control both entrances of the pro-
x,ncod canal