Evening star., 1912-10-04
REBELLION NEAR END
Nicaraguan FederaIs Win VIC
tory Over Their Foes.
ENTIRE ARMY CAPTURED
American Admiral Threatens Attack
With Marines Upon Only Re-
naming Insurrectionary Force.

The entire rebel army at Jinotepe,
Nicaragu about twenty miles south of
Managua. has been captured. with all
Of it's ammunition and arms and artil-
| lery. following battle of four hours
| with government troops. ending at 1
| o'clock yesterday morning. These
troops were trying to effect junction
with the rebel force under Gen. Zele-
don on the railway between Granada
and Manasua. Admiral Switzerland
| had notified Zeledon. who had refused
to surrender to the government forces,
| that he proposed to attack his division
| with 900 marines and bluejackets il
| he did not vacate by 8 o'clock yester
day morning The result is not known.
| The State Department is advised of these
occurrences.
intrenched on the Barranca, one of
two hills between which passes the
railroad from Manaaua TO Granada.
Both hills are fortified and menace the
railroad
Federals Bombard the Hill.
The government force at that point,
numbering about 5000 men. has been
bombarding the hill for five days
steadily without definite results. AS
they did not seem able to take the
hills and as the inhabitants of the
town Of Masaya were reported to be
on the verge of starvation, Admlral
Southerland was impelled to deliver
his ultimatum.
It is scarcely doubted that Zeiedon re-
treated without offering armed resistance
in view of his previous docile attitude To-
ward the American forces.
The battle which resulted in the cap
ture of Jinotepe, according to Minister
Weitzers report to the state Department.
must have been between the government
force that has been attacking Barranca
hill and the rebel garrison at Jlnotepe.
which was trying to march from that
| place to join Zeledon at Barranca. ABOUT
! twenty miles distant. The government
troops repulsed the advancing force ana
pursued them for more than tWeSve
| hours, until the rebels were overtaken at
| Jinotepe, where they made their last
stand. and were compelled to surrender.
As the government troops have already
! administered a crushing defeat to the
rebel force under Gen. Irias, who had re-
Gently entered Nicaragua from Costa Rica,
it is believed that the end of the revolu-
tion is certainly near at hand. After this
battle at Jinotepe nothing remains or the
movement except the small force under
Gen. Zeledon.
Starvation and Sunef1nS Reporteo.
Stories OF privation and suffering al
most without precedent in the history OF
Central American warfare are coming to
the State Department from its agents In
Mica ragua The pitiful feature is the
terrible affliction of the women and small
children, and the utter inability of the
usual relief agencies to meet the demand
for immediate food supplies.
The Red Cross has been working hard
to relieve the distress in Granada, but
much remains to be done. The clerk OF
the American legation distributed the
second carload Of Red Cross provisions
to more than 5000 persons in Granada.
being able to give only one days rations
to each. The American bluejackets and
marines shared their own rations with
the Nicaraguans, thus giving rise to
firm sentiment of friendship among all
classes. The Red Cross officials here.
made aware Of these conditions, will bend
every effort to the dispatch of fresh sup
plies of food to Nicaragua.