Show WILL ATTACK PANAMA Revolutionists Now Awaiting Await-ing Reinforcements ENCAMPED AT PENONOME Gen Henera Made a Demand on tho Government General Castro to Surrender but the Latter Declined Rebel General has Sent n Note to Foreign Consuls at Panama Notifying Notify-ing Them of His Intention to Attempt At-tempt the Capture of That City and of Colon i Colon Colombia Feb jTho wife of a Government soldier who was made a prisoner by the rebels last month and who managed to escape from Gen Herrens camp arrived at Panama last night She reports that the Liberal Lib-eral forces to the number of 1500 men are encamped at Penonome and Chame about seventy miles southeast of Panama Pan-ama and that Gen Herr ra and his staff are at Chame According to the woman Gen Her rem ont word to the Government General Castro to surrender The latter lat-ter answered that he had been rent out to fight and was ready to do so The plans of the revolutionists Indicate l Indi-cate their Intention to attack Panama but they arc probably awaiting rein forcements Tho only fighting so far has been between an exploring party In the vicinity of Tonosi where the revolutionists landed NOTE TO FOREIGN CONSULS Advlces from Panama ya note from Gen H rrm was accessed to tho American French British and German Consuls there In 1 Gen Herreru declared among other things that the government of Senor Mar roquln the President of Colombia was not lawful and that therefore the rebels reb-els although deploring the bloody results re-sults of the war would fight to tho end for tho ultimate suc ess of liberal principles WHAT HERRERA PROPOSED Gen Herrera proposed that the Consuls Con-suls addressed ask their respective governments to declare the line of the PanamaColon railway to be neutral ground on which the Government should not build entrenchments 1 the Liberals attack enlrcnc1ment police force b left to guard the line Gen Herrera sid he proposed It possible to compel the Government to attack LUeLfqr i antLthattIucL1b emlsha a Strong fee and army provided l with cannon n xctc arl TO CAPTURE BOTH TOWNS Gen Hdrrcra also declared In his note that the Liberals considered the capture of Panama and Colon to be absolutely necessary for the development develop-ment of their military plans that they would act to obtain such results and that in due time thev would notify the Consuls of such proposed action allowing al-lowing twentyfour hours for foreigners foreign-ers to take refuge at a place of safety to be agreed upon with the Consuls and that the point so selected should riot be fired upon This Is the same phraseology which Gen Porras used when the late Gen Alban defvsndet Panama in July of l O Gen Herrera said that should the Consuls S desire he would meet them as well as representatives o Che Colombian Co-lombian Government on board the United States cruiser Philadelphia at the Island of Taboga rANT TO GAIN TIME In Government circles here It Is believed be-lieved that Gen Herrera wants to gain time for the Government cannot accept cept the terms he offered When the expected reinforcements arrive on tho isthmus from Puerto Colombia the Government will begin an energetic and active campaign agalst the Liberals Lib-erals Panama and Colon are now garrisoned by 2000 men GovGen Castro has 1500 veterans under his command giving a total of 3500 men The most sanguine Liberals do not claim that Gen Hcrrera ha over 1500 men POSITION OF GOVERNMENT Gov Arjona said at the conference of the Consuls which he attended that he would not recognize oven Indirectly Indirect-ly the right of the rebels to make the rgt proposals they did that the Consuls could not correspond with the Liberals Liber-als th t If that even they were belligerents the Consuls would be required to have the permission of the Colombian Government Gov-ernment to communicate with them Gov Arjona then demanded that the Consuls send their answers to Gen HcTJOra promising1 to forward them to the Liberal General by messenger To this the Commit agreed |