| Show INSURGENT CAUSE GAUSE J NOT VERY HOPEFUL Estrada Asks for U S Marines c To Protect Americans but Wants Intervention ZELAYA HAS OUTWITTED HIM h J Conference Near flama a Mere Blind BlindA A P Correspondent Tins Can Canvassed 4 Whole Situation I Washington Doc Dec 11 HA A confer conCer conference conference ence believed to bo full Cull of oC sig sic significance Is being held this after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon at tho the navy naV department n nt Secy Sec of oC tho Navy Nav Meyer Secy Sec Winthrop Rear Admiral Waln Wain wright and Secy Sec of or State Wilson are participating Nothing IB III j known as to tho the nature of oC the conference except that It has hils to do with Nicaraguan affairs It H Is in intimated Intimated intimated that an explanatory state slAte statement ment mont may be made later lator in the aCt aft afternoon NIc Dec 11 iLA A staff J correspondent Corr of ot the Associated d Press who recently arrived here has canvassed the situation and finds It less Jess hopeful for fot or tho the insurgents than bad lOd been believed Gen Is 18 greatly disturbed and has appealed d to U S Consul Moffat for Cor marines from Crom the cruiser Des Moines to protect Americans It Is known however that what ho really wishes Is intervention by b the United States to save the insurgents cause While Gen Vasquez Vasques at the a 8 handful of oC loyal loal troops was parley parleying ing with Estradas envoys before beCore Rama Kama It Is said the main army ot or Zelaya was marching on A A disquieting report comes from Crom Grey town which I l said to contain a government force sufficient to route the Ute besieging besle ln troops under Gen Cha Chamorro Chamorro morro whenever the word ill is tt given It t Is possible that the tho art ar unduly uly alarmed Jut just jUl t as they ap n qt to have been over confident ti but b it the situation Is tot st ot forth as It Is I viewed d from the insurgents stand standpoint point UNPLEASANT U liEAL There has hos been a sudden sudden and un P ot of govern government ment mont strength and Insurgent ent weak reak weakness ness President Zelaya Zelan has lias outwitted Gen Ceo Estrada and the Uto hitters chief hope Is I In American Ameri ap Intervention It t turns out that the conference sought by b Gen of t tho th h gov government troops s near noar Kama which the insurgents had Interpreted as a n sign of ot yielding on the part patt of or t troops Was waa a blind Intended d to a delay of or tho ha expected battlo until ui i ithe the loyal 1 army had rained gained a decided advantage of or position It Is also aISo learned I learn d that while Zelaya had kept a fluttered force before llama Rama his hlo hl real of men was hurrying hurr III by forced marches mI toward The report that a descent upon this i city from Rama flama was possible only by b river her Is i 1 now known to be o untrue Gop dep Estrada endeavored l i cover his ills alarm by b Informing the corte at n the tho front that nil all tranquil with the tho prospect p ct cl that thai pen Gen z und and un Eva would sur surrender BU BUt render t lder Ten minutes after he lie had hall talked ith the tho reporters the tho Insurgent leader lead t tId ltd had lila his hI chief diplomatic aide Adolfo dolfo Diaz Ilz t on tho the telephone and amI was tell telling inc ing him what he believed to be the true truo situation sUun D Dt WANTS To his hi aid Gen Estrada declared that Hut the tle Amei leans ml send sen mord marl marines tIll oe as apparent t I 1 v had him Jilin Estrada also s d the th opinion that a sl be bo modo ma o of oC the tho St t s t for fill protection prot to the thc 1 GO Americans AmerIcas in Blu Diaz to U S Consul Moral the Ute Intelligence and the UIO th conui him hint that Ship leys I marines of oC tho the cruiser Dei De with their six guns be able to lo control the situation here b re In tho the event that tho the loyal loal army arm suddenly surprise the th city It was Wa recalled today toda that Maor Milor 1 Eva one of oC the envoys at r conference was the man rho surveyed e the telegraph line across the Hie country and that Hlat none knows bet better ter the th hidden ways War through tin 1 the tte for Cor eaU ests swamp swam Tit and hills hill If President lr Tift Is determined that Celaya laYa shall be dc 11 It Is IB believed hero here that the United States forces Corcel P will Ill find active participation In the tho Io necessary arv Gen Estrada has hM reached te the tha stage where he feels that the situation In is h critical unless tho the Americans are prepared to toa assume tsume a ume an nn active and supreme con control control control At present Commander Shipley awaits alts urther further orders from Crom Admiral All Idea IdOR of DC the enemy attacking fortified Rama hat hast been abandoned The fILl truce which w Ich covered the tho confer conCer conference conference ence ot of the government envoys enO g and which was n said to have n 1 to further conceal of or Ze layas men inca through h the hills towards Is la at t nn an end antI At the conference used every pretext to delay coming to the point and when the tho conference came to an nn end It was with a demand that the insurgents in inthe inthe inthe the vicinity of llama Hama surrender INSURGENTS IN ALARMED Further evidence of or tho the alarm of oC the he Insurgents Is shown hown in connection with movements of the steamship steamer DI Dl DiGorgio Gorgio lo This company which derived de a big revenue nue through a concession slon from front President has been be beloved loved to be b In hi sympathy with the source of Us Hs s revenue Its ships s are re in inthe J the he practise of ascending ascend hiI the th vor f om to Roma Kama to load with Im fruit How Ho ver vel on Monday Mon ay Gen Es iaUn t a plot through t the ho government nt troops which wore be bo behave have made a n detour to Kama wo t n oC the TC eel sel el ordered the upriver u I t trip rip aban abandoned abandoned abandoned i 10 He rushed troops toward Ramn flame and Th d convinced that these th se could Control tho the situation Save BW permission p for or the e st amer to proceed llama Kimo night tl the tho information l was received that a large lar e force toce of oC the lh government lt troops was waS stationed t d be bc between tween llama Hama and nd and at once G n Estrada ordered the tao steam steamer er Cl to l at nt Came she did Another cause for f alarm among am nJ the onta is the t t report brought by bytho b tho tiO cruiser t te Moines s that t Zelaya 7 11 a amen I Iwen wen men nt at the are far from Crom be bc bema ma ng In the desperate condition which has been d they Wey are arc r They The arc are said to 10 number more mere than well ted fad anti and well veIt naki soldiers l and Ild are nrc op on d only ont by hy Gen Chamorro with Insurgents Tile The excellent condi condition condition condition I tion of or tw In n Is to be the main reason while It does docs elive Its and attack Cia tia n norro The Thc soldiery cia aie not enthusiastic atie a lIc over oer Zelaya and ad his cause and andr prefer r C r Being fed Coll to tc |
