| Show KING LEOPOLDS CHANGES CHANCES ARE AgE SLIM i He lie Has Taken a Turn for the Worse Norse Though Official Bulletin Describes State Stationary ADMITTED HE HAD RELAPSE Popular Confidence in la His Recovery I I Haa JW Waned and General Feel FecI FeelIng Ing tag Is 18 I Pessimistic r Brussels Dec Doo Th death deth of ot o King Leopold appears Imminent He Ha had a distinct this eve evening fling ning and Is now being bains Ing kept all through artificial means meana me ns Court circles have practically pm no hope o 0 oHie othe the Hie patients survival survival Brussels BruscI Doc Dec The condition ot of Xing ging Leopold who was waa operated on yesterday for tor the tha th removal of an ob obI I ot of tho the Intestines took a turn for the tho worse this afternoon The Thc morning bulletin was hopeful in tune tone t describing the patients case as sta sla In tho middle of or the tho after afternoon athron noon on word came carno from rom tho the sick cham chamber chamber ber that his hla majesty had suffered a relapse rei Popular confidence In the tho ultimate re rc recovery recover covery cover of Leopold waned today In spite of ot o official reports and the as QS assurance that tho royal patient had bed had hada a lair fair night tho general feeling was wai pessimistic Dr DeP remained at M atthe MUIO the UIO bedside throughout the tho night while two nurses were at hand preparing to wait upon tho the king Tho The latter how however howver hOWever ever ver was obdurate and he bo Insisted that his faithful tal 1 valet Bajart alone alono should attend to his hla wants Dr whom Leopold playfully at ferocious the physician forbade him to tall talk comes and goes at regular Intervals and sees seas to It tt that the tho king does not waste vasto his Ills strength In Interviews or conversations Countess tho the kings second daughter arrived today but It was waa ru ro rumored mored that she would not be bo permitted to 10 ee her rather father because o of or his hie weak weakness ness fleas This evening there thero appeared to be beno beno beno no Immediate danger of or death but buti I i the tho king has experienced a return of ot r r an old Intestinal complication and It la is feared this thiN will militate against the success of ot tho operation King Leopold today declined to SilO see his Ills daughter Stephanie ASKS POSTPONEMENT Of Nicaraguan Inquiry to Give Senate Committee Clear Un Understanding Understanding Understanding of Affairs CREELS VISIT DISCUSSED Opinion Expressed l Ho no Should bo be Re Be Received as L la 8 Ambassador r to to t Present Ills Views S k Washington Dec 15 Secy Knox to tl today today day da requested the senate committee or tit foreign relations to postpone the t e sug suggested suggested suggested Investigation of or the th situation until ho he was W S able abio a lo to give th the committee a n clear understanding of Central American affairs I The committee was caled together t gether to today toI today I day by Chairman Cullom with tho the I of ot having Secy Knox Xo x make mako semi som m statement but agreed to fo the postpone postponement ment Because of or this thIn request the tho th resolution tion Introduced by Iy Senator Rayner It is connection with tho the execution by o el elot of ot President Zelaya of at tho the two Amen Ameri Americans cans cnn Cannon Gannon and Groce Gross was waa not taker ake up There Thero was some somo discussion of or o tilt the lit visit to this country count of ot ambassador Senor Enrique Creel Pub interviews with Senor Creel have represented him as coming with a view viet to acting as a sort of ot mediator In an trouble between tho the United States an Nicaragua over oer the tho execution of or UK the th two Americans Tho The opinion was ex expressed e pressed that Senor Creel should be re received r by b this government as the am oos adOl of ot President Diaz BIas to any views Mexico may ma have havo In regard rari r Ij to tho the future of or Nicaragua or other Central American states or that h hp could not be DO received in tho the capacity of ot a mediator between Nicaragua ant inO tn tho the United States DEMONSTRATION IN I MANAGUA Yesterdays dispatches containing nn an account of ot the demonstration tion in Managua were confirmed by b a telegram received at the state depart department department ment from VI Consul Caldera Caldern IH If I Pt JP From this dispatch atch dated yesterday It appears that some of or the demon l were arrested by government authorities but who ho the prisoners were was waa not Indicated Tho The dispatch says soya sa I IZela Zela has published a statement promising to resign tho the presidency of ot Nicaragua In favor of or Dr Madria who as candidate Is not tho the choice of ot the people hero here Mr 1 Caldera in speaking of or the de do demonstration demonstration the night before sa large crowds surrounded the American n legation cheering che tho the government and people of ot the tho United States In the absence of any an specific l c information mation the state department officials discredit the neWs published some som days das ago 0 of or any an Important engagements be between between between tween the government and revolution revolutionary any ary a 1 forces Corcell at Rama In h the revolutionary al army armo Is said to intro have hll been defeated r The Tio fact tact that the government has received no Information matlon on the tue subject Is regarded as almost st proof roof positive that no engagement has taken place at Rama LITTLE TO HOPE FOR Should Zelaya carry out his purpose of or resigning and Installing as president there is reason to believe bellee that the Estrada faction would con continue continue continue their activities with even great greater or er vigor than they lave have against Zelaya ZeI 3 The people it is said cannot look for bettor better conditions under Madriss administration than under as ashe ashe he is II known to be a strong partisan of or the former although ho has haa him himself himself self Clr been a number of times In prison by Z layas laas direct orders It is also known that 1 selection would not bo satisfactory to the United States and sad therefore his Installation would rather tend to complicate than to aim sim simplify the tle situation GUNBOAT The Tho gunboat Princeton If is approach approachIng Ing Nicaraguan territory and is re no reported reported ported tit at t tho the navy na department deP as be being beIng being ing at Acapulco Mexico M yesterday She is bound for and f her ar at arrival a rival there thero will make moke four tour warships at that port of ot Nicaragua On her way from from achieved the thc undesirable record of ot b ln the first of or the American m vessels scurrying off orr toward Nicaragua to run roD aground ground The cruiser Prairie by b attempting to take a n short cut to Panama across acro s Pea Patch Island In the Delaware river now shares honors with the Princeton n nI i It was om denied d at tho the navy department that the battleship Mis Missouri souni lour waS Wa making ready to go goto to Ni Nicaragua NIcaragua caragua caragna as had been reported |
