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Show RUMORS OF WAR ARE PERSISTENT Warlike Preparations Are Being Made by Salvador and Nicaragua Nicar-agua According to Reports. It Is Believed That Presidents of Salvador Sal-vador and Guatemala Are Anxious Anx-ious for the Overthrow of President Zelaya. Panama. Passengers by a steam ihip have Just arrived here and report re-port warlike preparations on the part pf Salvador and Nicaragua. When the Pacific mail steamer passed down the coast President Figuera of Salvador, with a military staff, was inspecting all the port garrisons, it being re-ported re-ported that an invasion of Salva dorean revolutionists, headed by Dr. Alfiro, and assisted by Nicaragua, was imminent. A dispatch from Managua says: The government of Salvador, instigated insti-gated by Guatemala, ordered that its gunboat President should fire its guns at night in the pretense of repulsing Nicaraguan forces invading Salvadorean Salva-dorean territory, the intention being to create ill-feeling against the Nicaraguan Nica-raguan government. It is generally believed that President Presi-dent Figuera of Salvador and President Presi-dent Cabrera of Guatemala are anxious anx-ious for the overthrow of President Zelaya of Nicaragua. |