Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-21
BATTLE IN HONDURAS
Claim That Nicaraguan Troops
Were Forced to Retreat.
ROUT OF THE INVADERS
Fight Lasted Two Hours and Thirty
Seven Men Killed.
WAR WILL NOW PROCEED
News of the Engagement Indicates
That Good Offices Of United States
and Mexico Will Not Be Accepted.
ROUT OF THE INVADERS
WAR WILL NOW PROCEED

SAN SALVADOR, Republic of Salvador.
February ga dispatch received by senior
Davila, the Honduras representative here
reports that the army from Nicaragua IN
vaded Honduras at Portillo del Espino ana
after battle lasting two hours was COM
PEELED to retreat, leaving thirty-seven dead
and numerous wounded.
The Honduran soldiers captured procla.
nations establishing provisional govern
ment. The proclamations were signed by
Miguel Oqueli Bustillo, Maxine Rosales
and Ignacio Castro.
Senior Davila says these men are Hon.
duran revolutionists who are fighting with
the Nicaraguan forces Of President Zelaya-
MEXICO CITY, February 2o.-First As
sistant Secretary of State Alger made this
afternoon the following announcement:
"a telegram has been received by Presi-
dent Diaz from the president Of Honduras
saying that at 4 o'clock on the afternoon
Honduras met on the border and fight
ensued. He characterized the encounter
as a small affair.
"The place where the battle occurred,
details were not given. The president of
Honduras declared that the .Nicaraguans
were defeated and compelled to retreat"
Prominent Mexicans believe that the dis
Bonilla Of Honduras means that the good
offices Of Mexico and the United States
to bring about peace between the TWO
countries will not be accepted by either
country and that war is certain
News in Nicaragua.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, February 20
Nicaraguan troops in command of Gems
Fornos and Vasquez have defeated the
Honduran troops and captured several i'm
portant positions.
President Bonilla of Honduras is re-
ported to have issued a proclamation dis
torting political events of recent occur
renee and appealing for recognition of the
boundary question.
Nicaraguans claim that the government
has from the outset demanded nothing
more than satisfaction for the violation
of Nicaraguan territory, the attack on
property and destruction of buildings by
Honduran regulars and the shooting OF
the Nicaraguan soldiers comprising the
frontier guard.
Manifesto to Honduran Peop.e.
MOBILE, February 2O.-A manifesto to
the people by the congress Of Honduras,
copy of which was received by Raymon
Viada, consul for Honduras in Mobile, by
steamer from Port Cortez yesterday, pur-
ports to show that the government of
Bonilla has been driven to war with Mica
visers, not the people of Nicaragua. This
is translation of it:
I'VE bring to your notice SO that you can
publish to the owns under your COM
mand the following manifesto of the legis-
lative power to the people Of the republic.
1.-The public are already acquainted with
the primal stages of the conflict with the
government Of Nicaragua, and the repre-
sentatives of the nation here explain their
motives for the decree of martial law.
I'm the first part of the month of January
there appeared on the frontier of Nicaragua
a party of rebels. The executive power. In
obedience to the constitution, is compelled
to preserve the peace and security of the In
terror of the republic and repel all attacks
or exterior aggressions. 1t saw the necessity
Of attacking these insurgents at Capules
and Canizal, and in the conl.-ct which &C.
CURED on the dividing line they elected
column Of Nicaraguan troops who were ap-
parently making common cause with the
Honduran enemies.
The Fight Against Zelaya.
1.-THE country has been provoked to an I'M
justifable war, and the national congress,
although Astounding in ideals and sentiment
of Central American patriotism in the pres
ence of the rupture Of arrangements for q
dignified peace by the civilized means Of ar
bitration, declares to the nation and to
Central America that If they accept the war
Honduras will not fight against the sister
republic of Nicaragua, but against the per-
sonal government presided over by Don
Jose Santos Zelaya.
"Honduranians. prepare to comply with
your duty. The honor. the integrity and the
sovereignty demand of you who are
animated by pure patriotism to rally to the
support of the government of the republic
presided over by Gen. Manuel Bonilla to
maintain the dignity Of Honduras and in
the days Of trial which are coming show
to the world what constitutes q dignified
and valiant people who will make sacrifices
before they will suffer an affront or the OPP
probrium of seeming ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
sacred soil of their country