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Show INSURGENT VICTORIES General Chamorro Reported Re-ported to Have Taken Granada Washington, Feb. 23. Victories of immense importance to tho insurgent arms in Nicaragua are told In dispatches dis-patches being received today at the state department General Chamorro, with the mala division of the insurgent army, has completely invaded the government troops sent out to check him and, by a flank movement, has taken the city of Granada. It is Inferred that General Gen-eral Estrada, once believed to be going go-ing in the direction of Greytown, is marching to xnak6 a combination with Chamorro. The losses of the government troops have been terrifying. Guerilla warfare war-fare has prevailed. It Is said that after the engagement of the nineteenth nine-teenth scores of unburled dead lay on the fields. The losses of the provisional pro-visional troops were slight. Disorder and panic aro spreading through tho Madriz troops and tho government. All trains on the railroad rail-road east of Managua have been abandoned and the line is used only for military purposes. The situation in the surrounding country Is becoming becom-ing more serious for the government. The insurgents also recaptured th" government steamer Victoria on Lake Managua. Madriz. taking alarm at the spirit ot unrest among the populace, which has Increased every day as Chamor-ro's Chamor-ro's troops have been advancing, has practically declared a dictatorship over the department! of Granada, Masaya and Carazo. . New York. Fob. 23 The Herald today to-day publishes a dispatch from San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, saying it is reported from Managua that the insurgents under General Chamorro suftered a severe defeat jesterday afternoon af-ternoon Dear Tlpitah. The casualties casual-ties on both sides are placed at 800. No confirmation of this reported engagement en-gagement has been received in New York. Land telegraph lines, connecting San Juan Del Sur. with Managua w-ro severed for several hours jesterday. |