The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-24

VletoFy over = NlcaraguaR IRsurGeal
tiunboai-Nlne NAN On the war
!sBsslsi cahis DstpafrA 10 Tua sur
KINGSTON. Jamaica. May % The Brit
ish cruiser Scylla sailed from here thi,
morning for BlueAelds Nicaragua. d
protect British interests.
WASHINGTON. May y Sehor sAlvado,
) Castrillo. the representative here Of ths
Evolutionary government Of Nicaragua
was elated over the mornings news thai
the insurgents had defeated the Govern.
ment troops near Rama
This means he Aaid that ESTRADA
will soon overcome the MAdriz forces
and that the latter will have 10 surrender
We now have them cut on from their sup
plies aud they cannot last much longer
SehOr CastrillO said he had received no
adviCes a. TO a naval engagement be-
tween MadriE's steamer. the Venus. and
an insuFgent vessel
The State Department thinks some
decisive action in the Nicaraguan aitua-
ton IL near a. the latest reports that have
come from Consul Modat show that the
/
around Bluehelds and that there has al
ready been considerable lighting In the
two days engagement near Rama which
had but little definite outcome. the Estrada
forces lost fourteen killed and twenty
nine wounded. all Of whom were brought
70 Blueheids for treatment. but the casu-
allies 10 the Madriz troops are as vet mn
| known
There has been no Official confirmation
ot the report that the Madriz glInboaf
Venus has sunk an insurgent glInboat
oH Ptnta Gorda.
n. J Amphlett. who IL manager Of the
Ia Luz mines in Nicaragua. has arrived
AZ the ~. Regis on his Way 60 Europe.
He says that Il the report il true that the
aadriS EiinbOat Venus has sunk the
Omotepe, the flagship II the revolu.
tiOnists. the engagement could not have !
lasted long
Before ! left there. said Mr. Amphlett /
yesterday. they we're irving to invent /
some safe means of making the Omolepe /
stand up. They figured out that IL would .
take about two hundred and fifty tons
Of ballast to make her swim with her
deck on top. But the idea of putting this
weight into her had 10 he abandoned
because somebody pointed out that IL
wOud 60 through her hull Az for the
other vessels of the revolutiOnists. 10
would nut need q shot 90 sink any that
l saw A good si1sd kick would pat any
~ thsm Out ~ business
The revoiutiUnists were much dis.
turbed when lett there over the approach
u the Venus BECAUSE they did not know
what she would do. ] guess their fears
must H. allayed by the fact that the
Paducah ordered her away
IL doea not seem 10 he Understood no
here. hut nature makes practically two {
countries out " Nicaragua. The rsvolu-
ton - un the east coast IN the territory
that stretches from Sgn Juan del Norte
DR. GrcytOwn 10 Cape Gracias This dis
'rict contains the mines and the banana
plantF tons. the former being up the Z
rinC, pal rivers az a distance u a. much {
~ lAS miles, a. fhe rivera run, our mine q
> about two hundrud and forty miles from
Bluenelds by the route that ! have 90
AXE. but not over ninety in a direct line 4
have seven Americans working there. 9
IL 10 my opinion from what ! know % !
he country that a fOrce from one side .
4 the mountains Wili ALWAYS he licked II J
{ STAYS long out ~ It's own country The
evulUtionists were beaten when they
loi over the mountains and I believe the 4
iiadriz forces are likely o. have 'he +
tuning licked out of them around Blue !.
lelds. One thing n certain. " the MadriE
OrCes DON get into Buedelds wtthin
he next thirty DAYS or GET away from
hat part u the country before tnat time
Apires they will he grabbed sure The
aInv -eason will then he on and % Will q
. impossible for them to get hack and
hey will have - starve or he captured
IL long A. IN armed force keeps o. ~
vs side 81 tho mountains u ~ safe
To give You an idea Of what that -
Ountry - like IN the rainy seasOu ! have al
hve mile rosd from my place 20 the a
liver constructed after the most ap- =
roved method ~ r0ad building aud
! the dry seasouI kept Up we'll as = rad
an b. Yet in the We, season On the a.
est mule ! have on the place and carry
" no he Rgage whatsoever. 10 takes me
full three hours 90 cover the five miles m
! can venture no prediction ss 10 hoW -
'ng the war will keep up or who will u
IN OH ! would not II ! could company NJ
own there has Ia remain neutral. be- ~
use you have - b. prepared 90 kowtOw h
, both sides The war has not seriously o.
terTupted the work at our mines ON
~ came 10 draft men. but always took VI
firm stand and told them at first that N
icy could have a certain per cent and no vi
ore and shut down on them after that "a
b. only real annoyance We have had n ia
hen they would steal our EasOionc for IA
- little auxiliary schO0neFs that they ~
~ on the coast
The rainy season rather helps than Al
nders the work with ~ In the dry sea.
IN We are somewhat handicapped by "a
Il Lack Of power, but this IN more than
abe up when Il begins IN rain. a. then
n streams furnish plenty q u 90
urse We are more or less isolated during
e vet season but We lay IN plenty u 10,
pplies while u II dry, and then there h RI
enty ~ do
o ] expect 10 be away from Nicang,il au
out four months. Mr. Amphlett added. ih'
nd lots ~ things can happen down 90
ere IN that time But think the nines
II still be there when get back
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