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Show iEfiuiiili GOVERNMENT TROOPS ROUTED BY REBELS AT TROU AND DRIVEN BACK TO CAPE. Business Practically Suspended, the Merchants Having Put Up The Shutters and Are Anxiously Awaiting Outcome. Tort Au Prince, The revolution progresses. Tho government troops were routed nt Trou and havo returned re-turned In dhordor to Cape Hnytien. The situation la calm here, but If tho government f.dU It Is feared that thorn will he disorders on the part of the lopuluce as all the disciplined forces aro in the north. The arrival off the rape of the United Unit-ed Stater; gunboat Petrel has vcrved somewhat to reassure tho public but a feeling of npprchetiHlon Is general. HuslnesH at Cape llaytlen In practicality practical-ity suspended. Tho merchants have put up their shutters and anxiously nwait the outcome of further fighting between government troop and th rebels. Communication wlih the Interior In-terior la Interrupted. Several prominent Germans have been expelled from the country on the ground of alleged support given by . them to the revolution. President Simon ia mid to bo attempting to pacify tJie rebels by prociainrns that the 1'nlted States will Intervene unless un-less tho railway construction across the Island Is permitted to proceed. The southern wet Ion of llaytl has been drained of troops for the campaign cam-paign In tho north. The llavtlen navy's new wnrh'n Antolne Simon (formerly the CoiifuI Grontuck) Is crippled, leaking badly and unfit for service. She Is being towed to Kingston for repairs. |