Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-10
zELGYA'S FRIEND TALKS
Hicurasusn sympathser says that Country
IL Not 10 Blame for War
HONDURANs E.LltO NcARAeUM FORCE
Arbitration over This Incident was
Defeated by BOniIla, Accord
ing 20 story Given out
.-.-. In Washington.

WASHINGTON, March e.--Nicaraguan
sympath izers are indignant at the charges
mado against President zelaya by Hon
duras and maintain that the movement OF
Honduras against Nicaragua and the re-
ported alliance between Honduras and
other Central American republics was
planned by President Bonila Of Honduras
for the sole purpose Of averting serious
revolutionary movements In the latter
country.
A prominent supporter OF President ze-
layu, and one authorized to speak for him.
said today that public sympathy cannot
but be with the Nlcaraguan chief executive
II all the facts about the present AFFAIR are
known. He also expressed surprise and
disbelief at the reported alliance OF the
four other Central American governments
against Nicaragua and said it is especially
difficult to understand why Costa Rica
should participate in any movement against
Zelaya. In answer 20 the charge that
President Zelaya refused to accept the de-
cision of the boundary dispute between
Honduras and Nicaragua, handed down by
the king Of Spain late in 1906 the Mica
raguans' insist that there is no foundation
for such a charge because the result OF
this arbitration has not even been sub
mitted to the decision OF the Nicaraguan
congress
Trouble with Salvador.
The assistance Salvador is reported to be
giving Honduras in the present trouble may
be ascTlbed to the fact that the two coun-
tries are supposed to be allies whose friend
ship was strengthened by the assistance
Honduras gave to Salvador last year when
the latter republic became entangled in a
war with Guatemala. Nicaragua and
Guatemala have not been on especially
friendly terms for some time because of
the failure TO negotiate reciprocity treaties
and the refusal OF Nicaragua to take part
in the negotiation of the San Jose treaty
growing out of the conference on the
United States gunboat Marblehead for the
settlement OF the war in which Guatemala,
Honduras and Salvador engaged last year
Supporters of President Zelaya are at
loss to explain the reported hostility OF
Costa Rica to Nicaragua II has been
known for some time that the present ad-
ministration OF Costa Rica was not friendly
to President Zelaya and his administration,
but the rela lions between the two nations
have been such that an npen breach be-
tween them has never been thought OF by
the Nicaraguans.
After the recent presidential election In
Costa Rica some OF the defeated candidates
went to Nicaragua and we're Hospitality re-
ceived. This gave rise to much talk and
rumors that Nicaragua would assist in
movements against the successful candi-
dates in Costa Rica.
Honduras the AREreHNOr.
The slaughter OF a small Nicaraguan gar
rison by Honduran insurgents who crossed
into Nicaragua was tho cause of the
trouble between Presidents Bonilla and
Zelaya. This was being arbitrated. but
President Bonilla withdrew his commits
sioner and provoked Nicaragua anew, CIV
ing rise to hostilities.
There were four arbitrators in this COM
mission, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua
and Costa RIGA. each being represented by
one member. The fact that President ze-
laya would consent to have his rights passed
upon by. a commission of four, in which he
had but one member, is pointed to by his
supporters as an Indication Of his good
faith in the effort to bring the war with
Honduras to an end.
In 1894 President zeiaya marched against
Honduras and made his way with a sue
cessful army to Tegucigalpa. the Honduran
! capital, where a friend of his was chosen
president. He did. not even demand in
demnity' OF any sort. The friends of Zelaya
say that IL he had wished to acquire ter
ritory from Honduras he, could have done
| SO at that time.