Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-10-09 | Page 1 | Foreigners Forced to Flee Amapala

FiES FORCED TOFLEFJilJ English and American Resi- jl dciils ol' Iloiiduran City in H Imminent Danger. U Special Cable to The Tribune. jl GUATEMALA. CITV. Guatemala. Ott. S. Foreign rosideuts of Amu pain, lion- h duras, have fled from that cily lo cs- jl cape outrage at tho bunds of Ihc com- jl mundant, who has given orders that all II Americans and ICnglisli In the place arc M lo be jailed and their property confls- W catcd. " Tlic order of Imprisonment was l equivalent lo execution. jl Tho greater part of the American (I property lias been seized by the com- Jl mnndnnt. The British consul at Ama- Jil pala has escaped lo San Salvador- lm- ;j in. i,l In I iilv imriii hlv 'iri-lv'nl ho (nlilivl ills; II government for a cruiser to protect Brli- f j I Ish property. When tho Anmpala com- II I mandant heard of tills he declared lie, Tj I would burn tho town the moment a Brit- til I Isli vessel armed with guns appeared on 11 fhe horizon. fj Before their flight, several of the ling- j lish and American families were sub- Ij Jected to cruelty at the hands of petty officluls. Tho escape of the ICnglisli con- fJ sul was effected under a storm of bul- I lets fired by a. squad of soldiers, -who IJ wont to nrrcsl him on a charge of fo- , mcnting revolution.