New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-30
CITY OF OC0S RETAKEN.
INVADERS DRIVEN BACK.
Nesp Attack Expected = Other
Bodies of Rebels AdUancing.

Mexico CITY, May 2s.-GeneraI CASTILLO. COM
handing ore detachment of Guatemalan revolu-
,,onists, after taking the city Of ocos was forced
% retire before superior force CASTILLO is now
reported 10 have taken a new base. and viii be
reinforced tonight by several hundred good
.yhttng men from the steamer Empire City.
s,eneral BarriIlas is pushing TO ouetzal-
,snango. city Of forty thousand Inhabitants.
This city is likely TO be occupied by General
garlas on Wednesday or Thursday of this week
ge IS immensely popular in that region.
The rebellion is said 10 be the most widespread
~ anv in the history of Guatemala Foreign
,ianters have been waiting for months for Cen
srai Barrinas TO act Practically all foreign in
,srests and many of the better class Of natives
support the movement
No news has been received here from Salvador
but the invading force should by this time be
well advanced into Guatemala
cuatenaalans here say that the whole country
IS ripe for the overthrow of Cabrera The season
Of rains has set in. and the roads are bad IN
Guatemala Communication is difficult owing 10
the cutting Of wires on the Guatemalan side.
General Barillas and General Castillo and two
efss LEFT the city on May IL They bought
tickets TO E. Paso over the Mexican Central
They boarded the night train, but left IL a Few
miles out and returned here, where they noaIu-
- a Pullman car stocked with provisions and
carving their saddles and special luggage IN
This car they went over the Vera Cruz and
,rs.,,srteneo railways TO Tonala, on the Pacific
c,ss- there switching 10 the new Pan-Amerlcan
psiluav which now approaches the Guatemalan
bo,ndary Their start toward the United states
deceived the Guatenaalan representatives here.
The Mexican government was aware that for
o,e time dissatisfaction with the rule OF Presl-
dent Cabrera was widespread in Guatemala
sr5 that rlalcontents had gathered in the MeXl-
ran state OF Chiapas- The government required
General Barillas TO move TO Tonala, some dis
lance from the border, in order TO prevent Vlo-
lations II international law.
General Farillas and General Castillo on cross
,,r the lin. on sunday night. distributed copies
NJ p p-oclaration to the inhabitants Of Guate-
rsla The proclamation recites that the stand
srd Of revolt has been raised at the two eA-
trenes Of the republic against Cabrera the
NOS, calan1itous figure of our contemporaneous
history who. having possessed himself Of power
rr crime has rerpetuated himself therein by a
chain Of crimes"
Panama May 29-The Associated Press has
received the following dispatch:
guatemala, Ma %. 912 a. m.-Revolution
sgled but already crushed.
ESTRADA CABRERA
ses,r -sbrsrz is the F7rssideas ofs oslata:'a1a-,
Washington. Nav 29-Guatenalan rebels who
attacked Ocos have been driven back across the
Mexican border but small parties Of rebels are
aupearing al various other points along the
Mexican boundary and threatening the Guate-
rnalan government. This information was con-
taned in e dispatch received at the State De-
rartr1ert to-day from Mr.. Combs. the Ameri-
can Minister 70 Guatemala and Honduras
Nr Nunoz. the Cuatemalan Minister, had
long conference at the State Department with
Secretary Root He called 10 get information OF
The revolutionary movement in his country So
far he has had no advices whatever concern
ing IT,
There is nothing in dispatches Secretary Root
has received which shows that the lives and
property Of American citizens are in danger, and
no steps have been taken 10 send warship 20
Ocos The cruiser Marblehead is AT Panama.
snd is only three or four days from the scene Of
the Instruction But with the unsettled po-
ntcal conditions at present existing IN Pan
ana, il IS not likely that the Marblehead will BE-
taken away from that port.
Mexico IS doing everything in its power to
protect its border and 10 avoid becoming en-
tangled IN The rebellion. according 70 a dispatch
received h.! the state Department from The
American Embassy in the City Of Mexico.
Ocos is an important commercial centre in the
little republic, and is the Pacific Coast terminus
Of the ocos Railway which has a modern pier at
that place The railway and pier are owned by
Americans.