Show CAME NEAR BEING DATTLE BATTLE but for cowardice of columbiana columbians Columb Colum ians blans our marines would have had to fight just from panama give additional particulars of how low nar a conf li between the amerl cin marines front from tho the gunboat nash ville and the colombian troops under colonel abalos aias avoided according to the dispatches the ma fineg vero mere landed in the morning and threw up menta tle the steamship pier they were further protected by freight cars near the trenches some colombian troops were brawn up near the american lines and things looked threatening for ohp handful of americans am orleans colonel abalos jumped out before his troops and ordered them hem to advance on the he americans americana the colombians had no desire to impale themselves on tile the bayonets of tha marines m and refused tc advance they retreated and were follo followed ned by the alre eating corn cam mander after he had broken sword his knee fifty american res indents of P mama hid had been armed in the meantime and the lieutenant in com command manI of the marines sant ant word to the Colom colombian blin camp that while his men there simply to protect am p ican property they had no intention of dodging dodKin fi any trouble that might como come their way |