The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-22
THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION.
WANTS MORE ARMS
AND AMMUNITION.
CoIombia's Legation secretary mt
washington Admits Tint the Rev
Titan Is Becoming Serious.

Ill
u.shington Admits Tint the Rev.
olution Is Becoming Serious.
>-oy York. Aug. 21.-Dr. Restrepa,
,,r,onatc agent here for the Column
,.ar revolutionists, the Tribune will
80. tomorrow, received a long cable
sisnatch to-day from Gen. Rafael
1rrfha- Tribe. The general asks that
.,ore arms be shipped him at once for
vs. army. and asks also for cartridges
sor the rapid-fire guns captured from
-, government forces at San CristobaL
Gen. Tribe adds:
enemy retreating into interior. VIII
oursue. Have no time to write letters
ow Too busy fighting. Clericals Sc
,.orelv beaten in both battles"
mr. Restrepa said that he would i'm
,,Adiately ship 500 rifles and quantity
80 ammunition for the captured artil-
lery to Gen. Tribe.
senior Thomas Herran. secretary of
colombia's legation at Washington,
r. is NOW in the city, admitted that
.he revolution in Colombia is becoming
serious. 1t is the army of Gen. Marin
which is causing the Colombian author
ities the greatest concern apparently.
mis- force. which is operating IN the
,,enartment of Tolina, consists Of about
. zoo men. Senior Herran said of Gen.
Marin: .4.a,, ,,auo
,atting serious. Gen. Marin is said to
SSove quite command. The guerilla
hands have probably united and now
form the semblance of an army, out
wardly, at least.
~Coiombia enjoys peaceful official re-
Iations with her neighbors. The report
hat Colombia helped the attacks on
The Venezuelan frontier is ridiculous.
Venezuela has a frontier of nearly l.
0o0 miles. and it is an utter impossi-
IjIitv for our government to guard this
"a nrevent filibustering. AS for Ecua-
dor Senior Emiliano IZaza, Colombian
minister at Quito, writes me that he
hos been very we'll received by the
Fcuadorean government. 1t is true
that most of the trouble in the depart
ment of Panama has come from hands
of guerrillas who have come from MIC
aragua. But there does not seem to
be a likelihood of a war.
In one of the letters received by Sc
nor Herran was the story of an ava
fHhusters raided Tucaco, in the south
of Cuaca, but Gen. Palacios, with a
government force, defeated them, took
MANY prisoners and qauntity OF war
supplies. Senior Herran said that the
Colombian government had no dennlte
knowledge that this invasion was aid
ed by the Ecuadorean government, but
the impression was that the raiders
had its help.
Further information as to the move
ments of the Colombian revolutionists
is as follows:
A report has been received that Col.
Andreas Marques, with a filibustering
expedition from Trinidad, reached Boy
AGA by way of the river Orinoco, Meta
and Aranco, landing five thousand
rifles and a half million cartridges.
Gen. Vargas Santos, one of the COM
manders of the rebel army, is now at
Curacao, directing the reorganization
of the rebellion. He reports that every
thing is going on satisfactorily. De-
spite his rs years he will soon return to
Colombia and fight.
According to further information
Gen. Carlos Alban. Governor OF Pana-
ma, and Gen. Joaquin VeleZ, Governor
of Bolivar, have had a bitter quarrel
over the policy to be pursued against
the insurrectionists. AS a result, 1T is
said, Gen. Velez, who has been consiG-
cred one of the governments best gen.
erals, has resigned his post. Gen. AL
ban has taken most of the soldiers
from Cartagena and sent them to Pam
anna, leaving the former port poorly
protected