Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-07-15
WAR DECLARED
IN CENTRAL
AMERICAN
ST A TES
SALVADOR AND HONDURAS
ALLIES A6AINSl 6UAl tMALA
President Cabrera's Enemies Unite
to Bring About His
Downfall.
CRUISER MARBLEHEA0
ORDERED TO SAN SALVADOR
American Adventurers Reported
Taking Part in Uprising
Against GuatemaIan
Government
CRUISER MARBLEHEAD
ORDERED TO SAN SALVADOR

Panama, July ia telegram re-
ceived here from San Salvador says
that Honduras declared war against
Guatemala today.
According to thla same message the
following proclamation has been cir
culated in Panama:
General Bonill, commanding the
Salvadorean army has repelled the
Guatemalan forces at Matapana, in
Salvador, ten miles east of the Guate-
malan frontier. The victorious army
of Salvador retained the positions cap
tured from the enemy.
The declaration of war by Honduras
on Guatemala, brings a third state ac-
lively into the Central American trou-
BILE which has been progressing with
more or less severe fighting and
bloodshed for a month or more.
Honduras and Salvador are now ar
rayed against their neighbor on the
west. Nicaragua and Costa Rlca are
the only two countries still passive and
II has bsen said that the former is
ahont to take part In the fighting.
Up to today Honduras has seeming
ly tsafen mn Dart,ln the difficulties he,
tween her neighbors. Recent reports.
however. declared her territory had
been invaded by Guatemalan troops,
in pursuit of fugitives from the army
of General Regalado, the Salvadorean
commander. who was killed in the
fighting at Jicaro.
The present trouble in Central
America has been brewing for a long
time. For the past five years the rev.
olutionists in that country have been
planning, intriguing and preparing for
the overthrow of President Cabrera
and in their efforts to this end, they
have not failed to appeal for support
to certain elements in Honduras and
Salvador, working on the national
jealousies for the first place among
the several states forming Central
America.
President Cabrera has been harshly
criticised by his enemies. They de-
clare he rules with extreme despotism,
that no mans life is safe under his ad-
ministration and the country morally
and economically Is going to the
dogs under his unwise and ill-advised
course.
On the other hand President Ca
brera has declared this revolutionary
movement to be consequential and
that the government would promptly
put it down. President Cabrera's term
of office in fact, expired In 1905. He
has, however, insisted upon holding on
to the office.
Cabreras army Is said to have no
faith in him. The pay of the soldiers
has often been In arrears. The fight
ing men of the states of Central Amer
lea are little more than automata 10
be led into a battle to shoot. to
charge and to be killed at the COM
M ~
Guatemala is In fairly good shap ;.
There are some 1000 professional sol
dlers in the republic, with $4,000 able
bodied men of service age. The re-
serves amount to about 10000 men. II
was reported that Guatemala had 50.-
600 men under arms near the Salvador
boundary line.
The revolutlonists are said to have
plenty Of lighting men, arms and am
munltion and they doubtless have in
vaded the frontiers of Honduras, Sal
vador and Mexico during the fighting
against Cabrera. They are headed by
General M. l.. Barrillas, former pres.
ident of the country. who has the as
sistance of Generals Castillo, Pineda
and Toledo. Guatemala is n little lar.
ger than the state of Ohio. Its pop.
ulation is so per cent pure Indian, Tho
remainder is chiefly half-castc and q
small portion Is OF pure European d..
scent. The trouble between Salvador
and Guatemala is an outcome of th'
revolutlonists In their efforts to oust
Cabrera.
While no actual declaration OF wal
has been made between Guatemala
and Salvador. a state Of war practl
caIly exists. All Guatemalan citizen
betweeen IS and so years old have
been called out to Join the ranks am
martial law has been declared.
The revolutinnlsts appear so far {,
have had the better Of t. They hav,
captured and held several towns, an.
as the movement progresses and sue
ceeds. their ranks are constantly beinI
strengthened.
The participation OF Honduras Il
this trouble comes rs n surprise
There has been very little to in'I
mate that this country would go Int
the fray.
A recent dispatch from Manuel Bn
nilla, president OF Honduras, to tn
Honduras consul general at New or
leans, said that the number OF Hon
duras troops on the Guatemalan fron
tier had been doubled for the purpos
OF preserving the peace.
The navy department has order.
the cruiser Marblehead to proceed i'm
mediately to La Llbertad, on th
coast Of Salvador, 70 safeguard Amer
lean interests. She was nt Panama
and should have arrived at La Liber
tad not later than July 10,
There Is no other American warshl