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Show GETTING DOVN TO WORK. Honduran Troops Win Fierce Five-Hour Five-Hour Battle. San Salvador. A message has been received from. General Manuel Ilonllla, president of Hondurns, 'from Cholu tcca, a strongly fortified town sixty-eight sixty-eight miles south of Tegucigalpa, as follows: "One of tho Honduran scouting parties par-ties attacked tho enemy Wednesday nt Nnninslouo. In Honduras, close to tho Nlcaraguan frontier. Tho Honduran Hon-duran troops occupied three advanced positions nnd compelled tho enemy to abandon tho town. Tho enemy was then repulsed from tho heights, Bartering Bar-tering heavy losses and proving an easy target for our artillery. "The onemy la now disbanding by the hundreds. Wo succeeded In capturing cap-turing a numbor of rlllos nnd a quantity quan-tity of ammunition. Tho battle lasted five hours." |