The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-12
NJ END IN S|CHT OF HONDURAN VAR 10000 SaIVad0rGaRs Enter Ni- caragua to Renew Conflict CHRISTMAS NOT BUTCHERED Information of Prospects of Continue ance of HostlItes Received at
 Mobile-FulIam Exer-
 cses Authority.
CHRISTMAS NOT RUTCHERED

Mobile, April 11.--According to a let ter received by the Register tonight via the steamer Hiram from Puerto Cortez, the Nicaraguan-Hond -Salvadoran war is not yet at an end. The Registers correspondent at Puerto Cortez did not
 have full information at the time of the departure of the Hiram, on the evening | of April ', but he states that the last l telegram from the President of Salvador
 was to the effect that he was sending 2O,-
 900 men against Nicaragua to renew the
 combat
 Up to the receipt of this telegram it
 was believed by residents of Puerto Cor
 tez that the war was practically at an
 end. The revolutionary leaders who en-
 tered the port with Estrado said that
 they had a message from zeaya dated
 on the 9th. that they were attacking
 Amapala and that they expected to cap 1 ture that town on the 9th. President
 Zbnilla is supposed to have been q re- l fuggee in Amapala and with it's fall was I expected the capture of the president l The correspondent further advises that
 the cables were taken in charge by the
 commander of the United States gunboat
 Marietta and that on Sunday all cable
 grams of any nature had been refused. It
 was further stated that if there is any
 fighting now in progress it is between
 Salvador and Nicaraguan forces
 Puerto cortez Surrenders. Advices received via the steamer Mer-
 cator from Puerto Cortez, which left
 that port early Sunday morning were to I,,1 ..f1 A..4o 1 Cieba had been surrendered to the Mica
 raguans on April 5, without resistance. l but that Commander Fiillam of the Ma l rietta had prevented General Estrada l from bombarding Puerto Cortez by a very
 pointed order. It semes that General Es- 1 trado, when attempting the capture of Truxillo, had claimed that the war was
 not an international o:,ah but according ito the report from Pgw.fo Corsx xa. when General sstrado landed at that point he
 had had change of mind The report states that General Estrado immediately | notified the Hondufan authorities in con- | trol of the port that unless they should surrender within a couple of hours that l he would proceed to lombard In the meantime Commander Fullam began to | exercise his authority in the matter and 1 notified General Estrado that he could l not begin the bombardment as indicated l since the war was not an international | one. The order to General Estrado in this l regard was a very pointed one, it being
 stated that should the Nicaraguan forces 1 fire upon the building in Puerto Cortez
 which is guarded by United States Blue
 Jackets that the Hotchkiss guns on the
 Marietta and placed in the town would
 be immediately turned upon the Nicara guam fleet. This notification from Com mander Fullam had the desired effect and | no shots were fired.
 Change Government Officials. l The correspondent states that the firing along the railroad had caused q change of government officials, however, an under l standing has been had with Commander l Fullam. that the trains are to be kept
 running into the interior. Four steamers | were in the harbor awaiting landing | Many of the former soldiers had left the l Honduran army and returned to work consequently labor was plentiful to secure l ready loading. The correspondent says l that Gen. Lee Christmus, the American soldier who has been at the head of a partion of the Honduran army, is badly
 wounded and is prisoner at Tigusigalpa l Tho story of the butchering of General | Christmas by Nicaraguans was not cred- | ited at Puerto Cortez. It was stated that | the fighting had been going on for three I days at Amapala and that Zelaya ex- l pected success on Sunday, the time of I writing.
 l Passengers arriving on the vessels from I Puerto Cortez yesterday stated that when | they left that port that conditions were
 very quiet: however. there was appre- hension that an attack would be made by the combined Honduran and Salva-
 doran armies to retake the town. These passengers stated that this was not more 1 than rumor since all communication with
 the interior points has been cut off. l Among these passengers was W. r. | Kennedy of New Orleans and J. A.
 Muench, the two young Americans who
 had been in charge of the guns of the
 Honduran boat Tatumbla, both enlisted | fin the Honduran cause but when the
 time came to fleeing before the approach | of the enemy they decided to accompany
 the Tatumbla and under the cloak of
 darkness escaped from that vessel in q | boat and boarded the Mercator. MT.
 Kennedy saw service in the Spanish-Amer-
 ican war. and is former lieutenant of the l Louisiana field artillery. Muench was for
 merly chief yeonan of the United States
 battleship Texas Of the surrender of | Cortez they said:
 Intended Invasion.
 | "The surrender of Ceba and the in | tended invasion of Puerto CorteS by the l Nicaraguan forces under General Estrado ! and Emanueletta Bonla was brought to COrteZ by the Marietta. arr1Vlng last | Tuesday morning. Col. Don Frederick
 upon being notified of the coming of the Nicaraguans immediately made prepara- tions to resist. His troops however, be-
 gan to revolt in large numbers upon l learning that they were to do battle with I the Nicaraguans Considerable excite
 ment prevailed. and fearing revolution
 more than the approach of the invading | army, he disarmed the troops and dis | charged them. Preparations were then | made to evacuate. At conference be- tween General Odenaz and American Con
 sul Greedy. Port Cortez was left in the
 American consul's charge
 Colonel Odenaz and his officers and
 others then boarded the steamer Merca-
 tor and put out for Port Barrios. Guate- | mala.
 | "General Estrada ordered every vessel | in port searched His orders were car- ried out. but when it came to tnke charge | of Cortez he was prevented by the Ameri- cans. Not shot was fired.
 | we were in a position to know the conditions existing in Hondnsas. and the | statement that Nicaragua has conquered | the country is simply misleading There l is much fighting yet to be done, and when ! 1t is said that President Bonilla has been