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Show Their Finisbc3 Are Always Spcctccchr. Peace once more reigns over the turbulent little republic of Nicaragua. That is good news which the cable brings from Central America, where revo. lutions are as frequent as showers In April. But this last rebellion was brought to an end in short order; The finish, was spectacular," even from a Nicaraguan standpoint. The end came on the rippling rip-pling waters of . Nicaragua. The insurgents controlled con-trolled that body of water by means of the steamer Victoria, which they had filled with enough ammunition ammu-nition to make a proper Fourth of July celebration. The Government was absolutely powerless, air it had no navy on the lake. As soon, as it got a warship onto its waters the rebellion broke up. It "got a ship on the lake by dragging it there over the mountains moun-tains on a specially constructed car. The gunboat Once de Julio (Eleventh of July Nicaragua's Independence. In-dependence. Day) was hauled up out of thePaclflc ocean and taken up to do battle with La Victoria. The engagement was short, as the Julio is really a warship, although of tu'penny size, while the Victoria Vic-toria was merely a merchant ship used for war purposes. pur-poses. The Julio shot her full of holes and forced her to the beach. The Government's victory relieved Managua, the capital, from its virtual state of siege. How such a finish as, this one must have delight-ed delight-ed those dramatic Southern rebels! It was more realistic than a stage sea battle, although it was comic opera warfare. But there is one redeeming feature in Central American revolutions the finishes are always spectacular. |