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Show CABRERA ORDERS MANY EXECUTIONS President of Guatemala Takes Decisive De-cisive Action in Dealing With Band of Conspirators. Eighteen of the Ringleaders Have Been Shot to Death and More Executions Will Probably Follow Fol-low Military In Control of the City. Ountcmala City. President Cnbrora himself Is authority for tho statement thnt eighteen of tho ringleaders in tho conspiracy ngnlnst him nlrcndy hnvo been shot to death and thnt probably nioro executions would follow. fol-low. Presldont Cabrera, against whoso llfo nn attempt was mado by students on Monday, received tho representatives representa-tives of tho vnrloim powers on Thursday Thurs-day and mndo a lengthy statement to them that ho had unearthed an oxlen-slvo oxlen-slvo conspiracy ngnlnst him that led up to his attempted nssaaslnatlon. Ho declared that eighteen of tho leaders had been killed by his ordors, and that tho death penalty would bo meted out to others at tho hands of tho military. Among theso nro tho mon Imprisoned a year ago. Having been Implicated In a plot to nsssassl- nato tho president, they wero sentenced sen-tenced to death, but sentence hnd not been cnrrled out. President Cnbrora said that ho had proofs that n majority ma-jority of theso prisoners wero Implicated Impli-cated In tho new attempt against his llfo nnd thnt thoy would bo executed without dolny. Although thcro Is a surfaco tranquility tran-quility bore, conditions really nro serious. se-rious. Tiro military Is In control of tho city nnd n partial suspension of business has resulted. Tho revolutionary revolu-tionary feeling Is strong in many qunrtors nnd thero nro thoso who will not hesltnto to go to nny length or fnco nny danger in their efforts to mako nwny with tho president. |