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Show ESTRADADEFEATED REVOLUTION IN NICARAGUA VIR. TUALLY ENDED BY DEFEAT OF INSURGENTS. Guerilla Warfare May Be Inaugurated In Hope That the United States Will Interfere and Settle Disturbed Dis-turbed Conditions. Blueflelds, Nicaragua. Tho Insurrectionary Insur-rectionary movement headed byt General Gen-eral Estrada against tho Nlcaraguan government has been practically crushed. The insurgent campaign In the west hns petered out and .nothing is left to tho provisionals but to re sort to guerilla warfare, encouraged., by tho desperate hopo that the United Stntes may yet Interveno in n wish to put an end to tho disturbed situation In tho republic. General Estrada, head of the provincial pro-vincial government and leader of the lnsurgonta, declared that ho intends in-tends to withdraw his forces into the bush and oppose tho advanco of Mad-rlz Mad-rlz to the bitter end. But it is necessary neces-sary to read between the lines of this statemont. Tho provlBlonnl government wishes to forco American Intervention If possible, pos-sible, becnuse It cannot consistently nsk for It In tho face of Its many refusals re-fusals to consider tho pence proposals made by Madrlz at the tlmo when It seemed that victory to tho provisionals provision-als was almost assured. General Estrada Es-trada did not even answer tho proposal pro-posal advanced by tho consular body at Managua, bollovlng that It merely Indicated that Madrlz was on his last legs. |
