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Show FOREIGNERS FORGED TO FLEE English and American Residents of Honduran City Subjected to Outrages Out-rages at Hand of Com mandant, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Foreign For-eign residents of Amapala, Honduras, liavo fled from that city to escapo outrage at tho hands of tho commandant, command-ant, who has given orders that all Americans and English In tho place are to bo Jailed and their property confiscated. Tho order of Imprisonment Imprison-ment was equivalent to execution. The greater part of tho American property has been seized by tho commandant. com-mandant. The Brlthh consul nt Amapala Ama-pala has escaped to San Salvador. Immediately Im-mediately upon his arrival he cabled his government for a cruiser to protect pro-tect British property. When tho Amapala Ama-pala commandant heard of this ho declared de-clared he would burn the town tho moment a British vessel armed with guns appeared on the horizon. Beforo their flight, several of tho English and American families wore subjected to cruelty at the hands of petty offlcIr.3. Tho escapo o' llio English consul was effected under a storm of bullets fired by a squad of soldiers, who went to arrest him on a chargo of fomenting revolution. |