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Show PROSPECTS FAVOR Afl M PEACE One of Nicaragua's Leading Revol ufioTrisis Seeks Conference Confer-ence With Madriz. NEW RULER INVESTIGATING EXECUTION OP AMERICANS Expectation' That Zelaya and Government Prosecutor Will Be Held to Blame. MANAGUA. Jan. 5. Managua is jubilant ju-bilant touipht over tho prosects of early pcaac. President 3lndriz made public this evening; a telegram which ho had received from General J'ornos-Diaz, one of the leaders in General Estrada's insurgent army, saying that he was leaving Rama for Managua to discuss tho situation with the president. General Vasqucz has left to assume command of the government forces at Acoynpa. where an engagement with the insurgent army, now moving westward, may take place soon. Members of the local lied Cross branch have cjone" to Bluelields, where remain many of the prisoners talccn 1)3' General Estrada in the battle of Jiania. Madris Gets Busy. Presidfrir. Madriz today began a personal per-sonal itive.sHgalioit of the. execution of the Americans. Grocc and Cannon, with the object of placing tho responsibility. Solomon Selava. who appcarod as gov-ornmoiir. gov-ornmoiir. prosecutor before tho court-martial, court-martial, will bo found jointly responsible respon-sible wilh Zelaya. it is expected. Admiral Kimball, in command of tho United Stotea naval forces- in Corinto harbor, has declined a gift of six steers tendered by President Madn?. for tho American sailors' mess. Congress has passed n bill providing for Iho issue of paper money to Iho amount of $lf.000.0Ul) to replace tho 612.000,000 in notes uow in circulation. Heavy War Tax. Minis'ior General Baca has issued a decree tixing 1,000.000 pesos gold, c.iui valent to nine, millions paper, as the amount of iho forced war tax. Zelaya levied a fax of two million paper. One-quarter of the new tax ifl to be collected immediately. The decree has caused consternation. Minister Baca, has explainod privately that no offense wai intended toward the United States in his speech at the banquet ban-quet given in honor of General Trias, when he said that, the caimc of the revolutionists rev-olutionists was receiving encouragement in some quarters and that tho inbab-Hants inbab-Hants of Granada wo.ro groveling at the feet of minor officers of tho United States. Comnirnl ing upou an article published in n paper here in which it is insinuated insinu-ated thai the United Slates realizing tbo impossibility of construct iug the Panama canal, desires to annex Xica-ragnn Xica-ragnn lo build a canal here, tho minister min-ister declared today that Nicaragua is rend to cedo strips of territory to"the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific-. NEW REGIME DOES NOT PLEASE DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES WASHINGTON. -Inn. o. While there has been no indication on tho part of Hie United Sfntes government as to its feeling toward the administration of Prcsidonl Mudriz iu Nicaragua, it is Continued on Page Seven, PROSPECTS FAVOR AN EARLY PEACE l.'oiiliiuiecl From Pnjrc One. known thai, much clissatist'aclion is fell with the new regime. Ceiinin acts of Madriz. such as Hie appointment, of ("Jen. Toledo as com-liiaudur-in-eliiel' of a division of (lie army, ami tho appointment of a TJ us sian Nihilist named Lodz, ?aid lb be si notorious adventurer, as commandant of the I'ori of Curium, Itavo led Ihe United flutes lo believe that iiollting in l.lio -way of genuine reform is In bo hoped I'm llirough Madrir.. In dijdo-ma dijdo-ma tie circles it is believed to be the inteiitiou of the t'niled .States to allow Con. Estrada to force Madriz from his position at. the head of the ?dana-guaii ?dana-guaii government. This, thy eonclude, is lite only practical solution of ilifri-j culties that now confront Nicaragua. Louis Coiea. delegated by Madriz as his representative in Washington, called at. the state rio.purime.nt today and had a conference with Secretary Knox and Assistant Secretary Wibori. There tvoicI tto results, however. State department officials were tfun-committal tfun-committal on lr. Corca 's isit. The Niearagnaii representative was received iiu'onnnlly and unolhVially and in the same capacity as the representative repre-sentative of the Estrada' faction, Senor Cast rillo. A l.elecram from Vice-Consul ( "aide "ai-de ra. at, Mnnngua says that the family of Mr. Caslrilln is living in Managua, and has not been molested. Consul !aldera also fays that American marine Oflicers who recently visited Granada were received with great enthusiasm. |
