Show CORTEZ AND CEIBA FALL Complete Success of Nicaragua In War Wlth Honduras Mobile AlaPuerto Cortez one of the principal ports of Honduras Is now in the hands of the Nicaraguans according to advices received hero Advices received from Commander Fullam of the United States gunboat Marietta via steamer Columbia say that Celba was taken on the evening of April 3 by the Nicaraguans Not a shot was fired The Nicaraguan forces then left for Puerto Cortez onboard on-board the gunboat Ometnppe They were preceded by the Marietta to protect pro-tect American Interests That Puerto Cortez was surrendered without fighting and that about 1500 Hondurean soldiers abandoned tho port two days before the Nicaraguan troops appeared was the information brought here by the steamer Anselm The Hondurans did not desert their post through cowardice according to these dispatches but decided the war was over They returned to the banana ban-ana plantations where most of them had been employed as laborers before be-fore the war began |