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Show INSURGENTS Chamorro's Army Wiped Wip-ed Out in a Battle , in Nicaragua j Bluefields, March 3.- The Insurrectionary Insurrec-tionary movement headed by General Estrada against the NlcHrnguan government gov-ernment has been practically crushed. The insurgent campaign In the west has petered out, nnd nothing Is left to the provision il but to resort io guerilla warfare, encouraged by the desperate hope that the United States may yet Intervene in a wish to put an end to the disturbed situation in the republic. ( For the first time, today the corre. tpondents and the more promincit personages of thl;; city were told the true sitva'lon, which, however, had been si:spected for a week. The public pub-lic generally Is .Ml in the dark, and pinning Us faith io the false reports circulated of Insurgent puccess. These reports have been glvrn currency, not I only in this city, but have been Sent ! broadcast with tho deliberate purpose I of Influencing opinion In the United States and elsewhere, and of attracting attract-ing recriitf. It is now admitted General Cha-morro's Cha-morro's campaign was a failure. He had fald that' the Interior was his. This w.-is possible up to tbe lime of President ZAlaya'-t resignation. His resignation has satisfied the people, and the west country gave Estrada a lukewarm or no reception and no aid. There Is still talk of a new republic, re-public, comprising the eastern half of Nicaragua. General Estrada may proclaim pro-claim such a republic and appeal to tho United Slates authorities to protect pro-tect It from lnnlon by the Madrlz government. Additional supplies of ammunition are expected here, and theee will be used to further a guerilla guer-illa warfare. The destructive blow' fell at Tlsmti Feb. 22. when Gen. Charaorro was defeated. In kilted, wounded and captured, cap-tured, the Insurgent general lost S.0 men Chamorro himself barely escaped, es-caped, and, with 1 10 or 200 -men, went to San Vlncente. American Wounded. Godfrey Fowler, the American who was in charge of the Insurgent artillery artil-lery under Chamorro, was wounded In tho leg and left at a plantation near Tlsma. Gen. Chamorro Is eald to have reacht-d San Vlncente and to have wired bis report yesterday. He estl- mates the enemy's loss at 1.000 men, aud explains hs defeut by the exhaustion exhaus-tion of his cartridge supply. With the remnant of Chamorro's force there ure now at San Vincento 800 provisional soldiers. Fifteen Americans recruited at Panama t.tartcd for the front today, und mi effort wa mado to gather 50ft hddl-I hddl-I tlonal recruits; The present indlca-i tlons nre for this ' fityTe of "bush' warfare, war-fare, presumably with tho Idea of compelling com-pelling the nuth'orttlcii of -the United States to Intervene. ' The sentiment m favor of intervention . has bo-en growing since "Mvna'6 defeat, nearly a month ago.' InloroiAtion ,a to Gen.-Evtrada'a Gen.-Evtrada'a willingness ' to- : allow the United States to str Id and supervise ; the election ..was conveyed to the' i Etate. department some time ago. but i elicited no expression from President I Toft or Secretary Knox. |