Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-29
BOTH SIDES WINNING
News From Nicaragua Shows
Signs of Coloring.
REBELS GET PEARL LAGOON
At Least It is So Reported From
the Estrada Headquarters.
MADRIZ FORCES A BIG LOAN
Western Towns Assessed to Carry
on the War-Ze1aya Said to
Be Helping.
REBELS GET PEARL LAGOON
MADRIz FORCES A BIG LOAN

date regarding the SITUATION In Nicaragua
are coming to the State Department.
Some reports are directly from the United
| States consuls and others are from rep
resentatives in this country OF American
corporations doing business in Nicaragua.
| AS might be expected, there is more or
| less conflict in the statements, for Whlie
the consul in Bluefelds reports Estrada
victories, the officer in Managua quotes
governments reports of Madriz victories
For instance, Mr. Moffatt at Bluefields.
| under date of Monday. telegraphs that on
that day the Estrada forces under COM
mand of Gen. Duron defeated the Madrts
forces after two hours fighting at Pearl
Lagoon and are at present in control or
that port. The Estrada forces lost six men
and the Madriz side eight. One hundred
and fifty prisoners were taken.
On the other hand, Consul Olivares at
Managua says the government claims
| that the Madriz forces defeated the revo-
lutionists at Nanaine and killed Gen.
Talavera.
Bombarded Undefended Town.
1t may be the State Department will
feel obliged to pay some attention to the
action of the Madriz gunboat Venus IN
lbombarding and capturing the ESTRADA
town of Prinzapulca on the 18th instant.
Consul Moffatt says that four shells were
thrown into the town, and at the same
time the Nicaraeuan gunboat San Jacinto
crossed the bar and opened fire which
continued for forty minutes. says the
consul:
1.-THE town was undefendcd and ungar-
risoned. There were In the town ohiy
the civil authorities, including six police
No notice of the attack was given The
inter rests in the town are almost entirely
foreign.
It is the last statement that may re-
leve the State Department from tne
necessity of intervening through our
naval vessels to prevent any other sucn
bombardment, because so far no WORD OF
protest has come to the department. from
any of the foreign interests anected. State
Department officials regard the occur
renee at Prinzapulca as indicating what
might have befallen Bluefelds had not
Capt. Gilmer interfered to prevent the
bombardment of the town by the venus
Other matters OF report from Consul
Olivares at Managua of as late date as
last night are that Madriz has issued a
decree levying forced loan OF 2.OOO,OOo
pesos upon the people OF western NlcaTa-
qua. the amount being allotted TED j. as VOL fol
lows: 7OOOOO to Granada, $ovS,OOO to Man.
nagua and 200,OOO to Leon.
Continue Attack on United States.
The consul reports that the censored
press continues bitter attacks upon the
government of the United States, and
openly advocates the seizure and sum-
mary execution of all the Americans in
the country unless the United States
forces are Immediately withdrawn. Mr..
Olivares regards these press utterances
as hysterical and mere insolence, and
does not believe that American interests
are in any immediate danger.
,f hos Of ho trnY
BILE comes to the department from COM
mercial sources. One of these repre-
senta tives, by the way. takes serious ex-
ception to statements made in the United
States Senate presumably referring to
Senator Stones criticism OF the State De-
partments policy regarding Nicaragua
touching the character of American In
terests in Nicaragua.
He has informed the department that so
far from these interests being insignificant
in amount and in the hands Of Adventures
and soldiers of fortune, his own company
has as resident agents men of high char
acter and has invested one and quarter
million dollars in eastern Nicaragua, He
says he knows that the total American
interests in that section are worth at
least ten and half millions. Also that
quite 80 per cent Of all the foreign inter-
ests Of Nicaragua are American. This
man reflected very severely upon Dr.
Madriz who. he says, lives altogether
upon forced loans, while so far Estrada
has refrained from levying any such.
Zelaya Paying Madriz Bill.
From the same commercial sources and
from other private means the State De-
partment has become convinced that ex-
President Zelaya paid for the Venus. 1t
Is assumed also that Zelaya's large private
fortune of sJ,O3O,OO0 is being literally
drawn upon to support the Madriz cause.
The department declares that 1t knows
positively that Zelaya is maintaining an
agent in New York for the purpose of at
tempting to subsidiZe two American news
papers in the interest Of the Zelaya-Mad-
riz regime This man. whose personality
is known to the department. but whose
name will not be made public. Is said to
have, come straight to New York from
Brussels. where Zelaya is sojourning. Ze-
laya's business partner is also said to be
in New York.