The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-12
Hot Flooded Latin Conspir- ators Are FIocking Into
 New Orleans
AMMUNITION AND
 ARMS ARE READY
Reported Zelaya and Other Political Intriguers Are Planning the Most
 Stupendous Upheaval Ever feH Witnessed There

New Orleans. June 11.-Known siree
 the Walker expedition of the early sos
 as the hot bed of revolution and the
 Mecca of fllibusters, New Orleans is to-
 day preparing for another annual up-
 heaval in Central America and the city
 is rapidly filling with the dark com
 placted Latin folk whose blood seems
 % simmer in proportion to the intensity
 of the hot weather. And as all wealth
 CT bureau records have been smashed
 this season, just so have the plans of the revolutionists been elaborated and unless Uncle Sam steps in and spoils the game almost the entire strip or
 land from the southern border of Mex foo to Panama, with the possible ex- ception of Costa Rica, may witness
 within the next few months the most
 stapendous upheaval in the history of
 Central America.
 Every summer there is more or less talk of revolution in some Central American country and more or less planning by people who have an axe to grind or who are willing to make few hundred thousand dollars in cash or val uable concessions by financing move ment for a change ~ government in the graft-r ridden republics Never be- fore perhaps have there been so many people of known revolutionary designs In New Orleans as right now are lead ing a score of secret service agents ot this and other countries a merry chase these hot days and nights.
 If stories handed out by these gov ernment agents are true, Jose Santos | NaIo oua aSiIad farmer DreSident of Nicaragua, has joined hands with prom
 inent members of the cientifico party of Mexico on a plan which involves a
 general political upheaval embracing Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, II not Salvador as we'll Several hundred
 exiles from these countries are now in
 New Orleans and daily these malcon-
 tents are holding as full conferences as
 the eagle eyes of the government agents | will permit. o
 Ammunition Ready These intriglers are said to have als' ready purchased in this country 5000 trifles, 3oo,0o0 rounds of ammunition
 and the former United States torpedo E boat winslow. They are said to be negotiating for the former gunpoat
 Siren, now In Central American waters, and vessel or two for use on the Pa cific side.
 I large number of so-called soldier of
 fortune including half dozen members
 of the "American Legion" which was commanded by Garibaldi in the Mexican
 revolt, are here awaiting the call to arms and Gen. Lee Christmas the best known of the professional war men. is expected to arrive within a few days from Hon. duras, where he recently assisted Manuel Bonilla in gaining possession of that coun- try.
 Fourteen other members of the Amer lean legion, now at Memphis, Galveston, San Antonio and Fl Paso, are keeping in touch with affairs and will go to the front wherever a scrap. can be found--at a
 moments notice.
 Pollcarpo BonilIa, former president of
 Honduras, has already issued several de-
 nials of any connection with the leader
 chip of this new war game. He came here, however three weeks ago via Mex ] leo City, where he Is said to have con
 ferred with people prominently identifed
 with the Diaz government, and the United ! States government is watching his move
 ments very closely.
 pr. Rudulfo Espinosa, long political
 header in Nicaragua, who recently passed
 Through New Orleans en route from Mex s ieo City to Costa Rica, is charged also with being one of the principals in the 4 planned general revolt.
 In former years these revolutionists have met with slight resistence from the ! Limited States government. They have formed their plans here more or less openly, even taking newspaper folk and others into their confidence, and boat loads of arms and other war material
 have been sent out of this port and from | Mobile almost under the nose of revenue | cutters and secret service men who were Aupposed to be under orders to prevent such movement.
 Al There has been change, however, and \ she United States government is planning < to prosecute violators of the neutrality laws to the fullest extent, to the end that peace may reign in the little republics
 The fight is getting warm and it is
 question of whether the revolutionists or the secret service men will win out Expedition Reported Begun Efforts here tonight to confirm a report < published in a local paper this morning stating that flibustering expedition had left Gulfport, Miss, last night bound for some Venezuelan port were fruitless. Those federal authorities who could be To- 4 cated here tonight declined to make any :, statement, other than to say that no ord CTS had been received here regarding the sending out of revenue cutter to inter
 cept the alleged hlibusters. It was, how
 ever, learned from other sources that one of the agents of the department of justice i stationed at New Orleans had left here | today to investigate the reported expedi- l' tions What the result of this investiga- Il tion is had not been learned up to late 4. hour tonight.
 The story published today says that Il after taking on ammunition, machine II guns, provisions, tents, hospital stores fl etc, 6 vessel called the Siren had left N Gulfport, "according to the best inror- mation obtainable,'' and that another ves- sel would leave today.
 The paper publishing the story says: Tt is believed that the boats are des- | tined for Venezuelan ports and that they | are to be the navy of Cipriano Castro's II Alibustering forces, with which he hopes | to regain control of his country. The | theory is that the Siren will stop at some l, secluded Cuban port and take on Castro N and whatever adventurers he has col | lscted to form the nucleus of his army - Il 6ulfport. Miss. June u.--The story that Il the Norwegian ship Hermanos had taken | on munitions or war at this port and Il would sail for venezuela is unfounded. Il The vessel is still in poart loading cargo
 of lumber for Buenos Ayres and will prob ably sail Tuesday. Il The Siren. which was also mentioned In
 the aIlesed expedition. has never entered
 this port.