Eureka Reporter | 1907-04-12 | Page 4 | Cortez and Ceiba Fall

CORTEZ AND CEIBA FALL complete success of N caragua cabagua in war with honduras mobile ala puerto cortez one ot of the principal ports of honduras Is 1 now in the hands of the nicaraguans according cording ic to advices received here advices received from commander fullam of the united states gunboat marietta via steamer columbia say that ceiba was taken on the evening it of april 3 by the N not i shot was fired the nicaraguan forces arces then left for puerto cortez on oard card the gunboat g Ome they here preceded by the marietta to pro act american interests that puerto cortez was surrendered without fighting and that about 1500 1 lond urean soldiers abandoned the ort two days before the nicaraguan coops appeared was the information rought here by the steamer anselm the hondurans did not desert their ost through cowardice according accord ng to ese dispatches but decided the war as over they returned to the ban na pianist ons where most of them lad ad been employed as laborers be ore the war began