Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-07-17
Central American Repub-
lies United Against
Guatemala.
MAKE COMMON CAUSE
infringement of Rights of Either
Signal for General
War.

San Salvador. July 1G.-CDelayed in
transmission). The belligerents today
agreed upon an armistice 1t is claimed
Guatemala during the recent fighting,
used explosive bullets, notwithstand-
ing the fact that Guatemala signed the
Geneva convention.
To Begin July Is.
Washington. July 1.-THE evening
of July Is will probably be fixed as the
time for the armistice in Central Amer
lea pending a settlement of the dispute
involving Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras. The state department re-
ceived dispatches today indicating all
powers involved in the war are willing
TO agree upon an armistice but some
difficulty in fixing the time when il
shall begin has bene encountered be-
cause of the scattered condition of the
warning troops and the scarcity OF
means of communication between the
various republics.
Coalition Exists.
New Orleans. July 1.-THE alleged
coalition of the Central American re-
publics against Guatemala is reported
in special dispatch from Mexico City.
The dispatch. which quotes friend of
General Barillas as authority, says:
Each to Guard Other.
Sometime last March Salvador.
Honduras, and Nicaragua entered into
an offensive and defensive coalition
against Guatemala. announcing that
the moment there was an infringement
by Guatemala of territorial rights of
either of the three confederates a de-
claration of war against Guatemala
should follow"
Brings Copy of Circular.
The dispatch also says John Jen-
kins. consul general of the United
States at San Salvador is on his way at
the request of the Salvadorean govern
ment to present to President Roosevelt
a copy of the diplomatic circular is
sued by Salvador. claiming the present
troubles began last March when DR..
Fortin. charge d'affaires of Salvador at
Guatemala City, found his mail being
tampered with.
May Meet on Marblehead.
Washington, July 1.-THE navy de-
partment was informed yesterday af- !
ternoon by cablegram from Command |
er Mulligan of the arrival of his ship
Marblehead at La Libertad from Pan
anna. The vessel will be proffered the
governments of Salvador and Guate-
mala as a place of meeting for peace
commissioners Details of the meet
ing of peace commissioners will be ar
ranged by the American legation. |
Neither Minister Merry nor Messrs. I
Comb nor Brown will act in the ca
pacity of peace commissioner to either
country, but will interest themselves
in the selection of peace commissions
by the governments to which they are
respectively accredited. They will
probably conduct these commissioners
to the Marblehead and go with them
beyond the three-mile limit to sea. If
called upon, they will advise them in
friendly way.
Enter an Alliance.
1t has developed that Salvador and
Honduras have entered into an alli-
ance, the nature of which is not GER
tainly known. 1t is believed the pur-
pose is to agree upon the terms of
peace that shall be proposed by the
two countries to Guatemala. This news
came to the state department from
Charge d'Affaires Brown at Guatemala
City.
Still another cablegram, this one
from Minister Merry, informed the
state department that Honduras in
sisted upon being considered along
with Salvador in the peace negotia-
tiOnS with Guatemala Altogether the
prospects of a peaceful termination of
the present difficulty is believed to
have frightened considerably.