Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-03
rebellion CRUSHED
BY AADR'Z FORCES
IN NICARAGUA DE-
FEATED AND PUT TO
RoUT.
ONLY GUERILLA WARFARE
POSSIBLE BY ESTRADA
chamorro's Army Reduced to Hand
full of Fleeing Men, and Mena's
Forces Depleted and Defeated -
RebeIs Still Hope For Intervention by
United States.

Bluefields, Nicaragua, March 3.-News
OF the crushing defeat of Chamorro at
Tisma, Feb. %, today was officially
confirmed. Chamorro's force was wiped
out and he barely escaped with hand
full of followers. His loss in killed,
wounded and captured was 500. He es-
Inmates his opponents loss at 1000.
The defeat was due to the giving out of
his cartridges.
Revolution is Crushed.
AS military menace the provisional
army now seems to merit no higher
classification than that of guerillas. The
insurrectionary movement headed by
General Estrada has been practically
crushed, the insurgent campaign in the
west has petered out, and nothing is
left to the PROFESSIONALS but to resort to
guerrilla warfare. encouraged by the
desperate hope that the United States
may yet intervene in wish to end the
disturbed situation in the republic.
True Situation Revealed:
For the first time today correspond
ents were told the true situation. The
public generally is still in the dark and
pinning it's faith to false reports of in
surgent successes. These reports have
been sent broadcast with the deliberate
purpose of influencing opinion in the
United States and elsewhere, and Of
attracting recruits from the govern
ments forces.
1t is now admitted that Chamorro's
campaign was a failure. He had hoped
the interior would welcome and rein
force the insurgent arms. This was
possible up to the time Zelaya resigned
Ills resignation and the election Of
Madriz appears to nave satisfied the
people of the interior and the west gem
orally, and when Estradas army reach
ed the heart of the country they were
given lukewarm reception and little
or no aid.
Still Talk Secession.
:. There is still. talk Of a new republic
comprising the eastern half Of Near
aqua. Estrada may proclaim such a
republic and appeal to the United
States to protect the new republic from
invasion by the Madriz government.
With the remnant of Chamorro's force
there are now at San Vicente 500 pro-
soldiers. Fifteen Americans re-
cruited at Panama, started for the front
today and an effort is being made to
gather 500 additional recruits among
the Nicaraguans of this city. Senti
ment in favor of Intervention by the
United States has been growing since
Mena's defeat at Santa Clara nearly q
ago. Information as to Estrada's
to allow the United States
to step in and supervise the elections
was conveyed to the state department
some time ago, but elected no express
sion from President Taft or Secretary
Knox.
BIuefieds Wants to Quit.
Bluefields would now extend open
arms to almost any proposition leading
to the termination of hostilities. There
is reason to believe that reports Of the
capture of Granada and the steamer
on Lake Managua were prom
ulgated by Madriz for the sole purpose
of drawing Chamorro into that vicini-
ty Chamorro's defeat leaves only
Mena's com paratively small force in
terposed between the enemy's one
thousand and the east coast.
Still Hope for Intervention.
Some of the provisional leaders pro-
fess to believe that with Mena's SOL
diers and such of the depleted insur-
gent force as could be rallied from the
frontier for defense of a new republic,
they would stand some chance of sue
cess and that there Is the possibility
that the United States would recognize
the new government and forbid fighting
on the ground that movement of gov
forces to the east would be an
invasion of one country by another.