Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-03-09 | Page 6 | Three Involved in Big Squabble

THREE INVOLVED IN DIG SQUABBLE 0 . . . i Nicaraguan Sympathizers! Indignant at Honduran 4 Action ; Story of Trouble Is Repeated. . .. WASHINGTON, March 9. Nlearaguan sympathizers are Indignant at the charges made against President Zelaya by Honduras and maintain that the mover-meat, of Honduras against Nicaragua, and the reported alliance between Hon- ' fluras and other Central American repub-v repub-v lies, was planned by President Bonllla of Honduras. Nicaragua and Guatemala have not been on esteclally friendly terms for , . otne time, because of a failure to negotiate nego-tiate a reciprocity treaty and the refusal of Nicaragua to take part in the negotiations negotia-tions of the San Jose treaty growing out of the conference upon the United States fur. boat Marblehead for the settlement of he war In which Guatemala. Honduras and Salvador engaged last year. Sup-" Sup-" porters of President Zelaya are at a loss to explain the reported hostility of Costa . , Rica to Nicaragua. The slaughter of a small Nlcaraguan garrison by Hondurean .insurgents who crossed Into Nicaragua was the cause of the trouble between Pre I '.dent Bonllla and Zelaya. This was being arbitrated, but , "President. Bonllla withdrew his commissioner commis-sioner and provoked Nicaragua anew, giving rise to hostilities. There were four arbitrators In this commission. Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica,