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Show Puerto Cortcz Taken and, Despite threats of Heavy Resistance, Not a Shot Is fired; Ceiba Also Reported to Have ' Yielded to Superior force. ! ' I V', .' . . - uerto Cortez, one of the principal ports of Honduras,! is now in the hands of the Nicaraguans according .to ad-j vices' received '. in . Mobile, Ala., . today. The Nicaragua armjr and navy is active and is reported to be moving on' Ceiba. . j This information was contained in a telephone mes-' I sage I received in Mobile this morning by the Thacker, Steamship company from New Orleans, stating that. ai cablegram had just been received from Puerto Barrios ty that effects . ; j The Honduran railroad and, cable, it is understood,: have) been Jin control of the Nicaraguan army., since the! capture of Tegucigalpa, and news from the seatlof hostili-; ties for the last two weeks has been obtained by mail boat or by way of cable from Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. v I I MOBILE, APRIL 8. ADVICES RECEIVED RE-CEIVED TODAY FROM COMMANDER COMMAND-ER FULLAM OF THE. UNITED STATES GUNBOAT MARIETTA,'-BY THE STEAMER COLUMBIA, SAY THAT I CEIBA WAS TAKEN ON THE EVENING OF APRIL 3 BY THE NICARAGUANS. NOT A SHOT WAS FIRED. THE NICARAGUAN FORCES THEN LETT FOR PUERTO CORTEZ ON BOARD THE GUNBOAT OME-, OME-, TAPPE. THEY WERE PRECEDED BY THE MARIETTA TO PROTECT i AMERICAN INTERESTS. , ' ' IT HAS BEEN AGREED BETWEEN i . COMMANDER ' ESTRADA OF THE i NICARAGUAN FORCES AND COM-i MANDER FULLAM OF THE MARI.I ETTA THAT .PUERTO , CORTEZ IS ' NOW, IN THE HANDS OF- THE NIC-' ARAGUANS, AND IT IS BELIEVED , THAT THE HONDURENS AT PUERTO PUER-TO CORTEZ SURRENDERED, ALTHOUGH AL-THOUGH IT WAS SAID BY PASSEN- f" GERS ON THE COLUMBIA FROM ; CEIBA THAT GEN. ORDENAZ HAD l REFUSED TO SURRENDER AND 1 WOULD FIGHT Tfl THE LAST DITCH. In a messajte to the master of the ' Columbia, Commander Fullam of the ; Marietta says that the Nicarajruan i forces bad promised not to bombard : Cortez and that he believed there would be no resistance. He said that the , Nicaraguans' claim that a new regime , would be established on the Honduran coast immediately and that both sides : to the controversy understood that it is for their interest to-let foreigners alone. , |