The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-26
WASHINGTON ADYICES.
SC0lOmbian Government Seemed Victo
 rtous Over the Rebels.

& COlOmbian Government Seemed Victo
 rtous Over the Rebels. $ M Washington Nov. 25.--It is pretty we'll understood here that there is to be
 no bombardment of Colon by either
 eide. While Commander McCrea was X given wide discretionary power anc y nothing was said to him about stopping Z the bombardment directly, nevertheless x the state department established a pre-. z cedent in these matters last year when
 1t instructed MT. Gudger to warn some Insurgents at Panama that they would { not be allowed to lombard that port v ii the government troops on the Pinzon Y should persist in their purpose it is \ 3aid that the commanders of the va Ss rious warships at Colon would require < that ample time be allowed for the Withdrawal from the town of all for X eigners and the attacking force, to es- cape restraint, would be obliged to di-
 rect. it's bombardment with such rare
 Drecision as to destroy the insurgent x defenses without harming the railroad < property and even without endangering
 the passage of, trains, conditions prob ably not to be met.
 The secretary of the navy cabled Cap
 tain Perry of the Iowa to-day to assume \ full command of all the United States @ naval forces on both sides of the isth-
 mus in order to insure harmonious oper- X ations. Consul General Gudger's latest N despatch, which came after 1 o'clock, S was about as follows
 X "Our troops have arrived at Mata- chin, one-h half of the way across the { isthmus. No obstruction and Colom- \ bian government seemed to be vic- z tprfous over the insurgents"
 Later advices, showing that the situ-
 Ation on the isthmus is still unsettled EContain the information that free tram 2sit by way of the railroad has been re- X estA blished. These advices came in a {. dispatch received by Secretary Long from Captain Perry of the Iowa, who
 had made a trip across the isthmus X trom~Panama to Colon, from which place he sent telegram, an extract of (Which the secretary made public as fol- Slowe:
 kssCaptain Perry reports that free tran
 6it across the isthmus is restored and
 th&t~he returns to Panama this after
 noon. The captain will leave a guard %0n each passenger train for the pres 5Snt."
 The purpose of the guard presumably
 ie to prevent interruption to the free
 passage of trains by insurgents along
 the line of the road.
 { Mr. Herran, the charge of the Colom- xkfAn legation, is very well satisfied with
 th6Stenor of the advices which have
 come to hand to-day from Acting Gov s4rsEaor Arjona of Panama, who reported That the rebel army having been de- sfeated at Culebra and Emperador, Gen Reral Alban had now marched on Colon. His theory is that General Alban com 5pletely dislodged the rebel force which
 Had rendezvoused at Cherrera, from (Which place MT. Herran believes they fetreated to Culebra and Emperador, where they again took a stand. Their defeat at these places, MT. Herran says, leaves General Alban free to march to Colon. MT. Herran thinks that General Alban now has at least |, ,000 well equipped and thoroughly arm 1ed men besides which six hundred men l8re on board the Colombian boat Pin xof, now at Colon. MT. Herran asserts that the rebels have not at the outside more than 800 men.