Show the belligerents fling aside lie truce true and again fly to anns arms AT LEW TO TWO BLOODY waith terminate for 84 hador her fadna being looted to retreat beirut 01 1 NIE 11 nilo OF BITILE 1 aid toSi hador a lung long and ams bloody ivar war 9 F chronicle 1 GUATEMALA city july ag guatemalan c cavalry a valry under tinder general caari ano S sanchez Sin in chez with eight hundred men and the infantry under tinder general manuel angilon to the number of two thousand men made an attack on the forces of salvador about thirty miles from rora the san mignel miguel boundary on the morning ot of july the twenty third and drove them back into their own terr berrr tory with a loss on both bides sides of about four hundred men salvador Ral vador lost one galling gatling RUH gun and one fieldpiece held piece two of guatemalan Guate malas standards were temporarily pora rily borne off by the salvador troops guatemalan Guate malas lose loss wag was by far the most severe less that one hundred and fifty men being bring killed on the side of salvador the fight took piece place on the morning after a parley under a flag of truce on the boundary the two contending parties having been unable to come to any amic amicably ablo understanding the defeat of the sal rad was apparently only a ruse on their part for two hours afterwards the salva doriana dori do rians anh reinforced with troops under general IIer Iler mandez nicknamed nick named el gata tha the cat fiercely a attacked t ta c ked the guatemalan guatemalan army surp surprising r is in g them and forcing them to beat a hasty retreat with a severe loss of men arms and ammunition the retreat was twelve miles before a halt was called and now the salvadorian Silv adorian troops are encamped on guatemalan soil within half a mile from the high road leading to salvador from the guatemalan capital nicaragua has just sent offers of assistance to salvador of both money and troops the latter a baa has been accepted and the th combined effort on the part of these two countries guatemala to stifle her pretentious may lead to a long and balooly war la in central america A strong revolutionary movement is on foot in G guatemala nat emala and the constitutional regime has been practically eug 11 throughout the republic the national I 1 palace here as well as president barillas barillas residence have been placed under stout military guard and martial law prevails throughout the republic no telegrams are permitted to leave guatemala unless they boar bear the tile government stamp showing that they have passed through the hands of he the con bor agot I 1 got thie this through ID y the con givance of the fele telegraph graph operator carillas pro aunt lam 11 ento CITY or OF Af Exico july 20 Ll lisandro sandro barillas who styled himself the constitutional president of the republic has issued irom from G guatemala ft a to his fellow citizens in which he indicates his intention of invading san salvador and which starts out ae as follows guate nate malans galans the deeds perpetrated at the capital of salvador on the night of the met I 1 have deeply moved all social circles of Guat guatemala emila because happily there is 13 among us tia such depth of hanast honesty that whatever our I 1 partisanships partisan ships or our political deno dejoan mi nations might be we all agree in energetically ergeti cally reproving m wickedness ick edness and repulsing g all contracts with men stained with criminal acts central america in these moments labors under onder a stigma of horrible dishonor the honest president of salvador who had made in bis his country a P plausible lau sible 0 lotical al evolution who had bad re fj abtil credit encouraged improvements effected remarkable economies who had ampire or liberty her even for his enemies themselves the worthy mandatory who was a zealous guardian of republican institutions tut tat ions the eminent citizen and benemerito Bene mereto of the country general don dori francisco whose civic virtues fill one of the best pages of central american history has fallen a victim to a crime extremely scandalous 11 then be lie says it shall be bis his business to see bee that anarchy and confusion take not a hold oa on salvador and ends thus sly aly g government over a has placed some force forces of observation on the frontier for this reason and for the good of all and particularly for the eake sake of the Salva salvadorian dorlan people 1 I whose base rights and interests a r bhail hall ai always respect and ia is ready to act as circumstances circum r require guata fuata lre malana have full truittt trust in the fact that my government shall never swerve from the path marked oat out by the institutions and the sacred interests of the country counts Y your our fellow citizen and friend il 31 N V QUAT 4 SCALA june 27 11 another Salia dorlan I 1 ettory STANDARD special 9 F P chronicle Servi service cej CITY OF MEXICO 3 11 20 notwithstanding exi exasperated reports that have geminated emina ted i from r 0 T the leaders of the two central ami american e rican republics now involved in a row thie this much ie Is cartain that battles have been fought and a formal declaration of war has been made after the troop of salvador had invaded guatemala and planted their flag upon guatemalan boll soil guatemala felt insulted and declared war the guatemalan troops fought with great courage at coote coate reque and chingo the loss was great on both sides the troops of salvador were driven out of guatemala mala but returned and won the battle president Bar barrillas Barril rillas laa 0 of I 1 guatemala has issued his manifesto and hie his henchmen claim that it has aroused great enthusiasm the Det lantion of war july barillas Baril lae proclamation r la mation ot of war occur occurs the following ni fan g the government ol 01 salvador has declared war against guatemala after having actually begun hostilities by invading our oar territories with cre fire and sword my government baa has felt itself obliged to accept war and an army is being actively organized in order to Bu sustain stain it with dignity the foreign e colonies ol onles and our pe people olT have lieen ilsen en an masse to offer their services tor for the defence of the tile country 11 all the battles reported to have been fought b tween salvador and guatemala Juat emala have taken place on the aitio iaz stream dividing guatemala from salvador throe three battles took place in the district of San Banea sanate nato in ban san salvador and the othera others in guatemala general ezeta ie is commanding in person the tile army of Salva salvador dorand and ia Is said to have been foremost in every fight brigadier general cayetan Caye tane sanchez whom guatemala claim claims has 11 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 won a victory over ezeta ie is only 27 years old and ie so a graduate 0 of I 1 the military collece e of guatemala lie ia Is chief I 1 of art artillery 1 ery other notable generals brals are with the frontier army T twenty thousand troops of lamenta la are in nabern and Eq equilar Equi nilas las honduras bag has not remained idle in the international strife she is bending sending in g troops to the frontier of salvador in a that part of the tile country 1 divided by the river country 1 it she be invades lna Jes salvador her first attack will be made upon 1 fan an miguel in the north es a tern part of ta the le republic Ite public it ie is believed elie b 1 ie conceit concentrating ra ting about three thousand men on the river for thie this purpose and it ia Is probable in view of the formal declaration of war between salvador and guatemala that ahe she nil will attempt tins this movement at an early title date but will be met by a force a ot salvadorians eight thousand strong it ia is claimed bat that a revolution ie is in progress in in honduras that will claim president Broer programs Bro grams attention costa rica and nicaragua have re remained m load quiet biet notwithstanding the lepor recurt t from from that they were parties to the compact recently signed to restore peace in sab salvador in view of the fact that I 1 hey they decided to become allies of salvador when barrios attempted in to coerce the central american republic i into a union it would seem improbable that they have gone over I 1 to their old enemy within a week at the latest owing to recent e eventa vents they will ba be obliged to BLOW slow their hand hands Salva doriane living ang here doubt that these re republics publics have signed the compact wit with h guatemala and nd claim that it would ba be a suicidal moe move owing to their geographical positions aid and the fact that guatemala baa has always wai s been their enemy probable 11 of uncle sam new july joly 26 on account of certain mysterious and indefinite information itis it ie believed bera here that the united states haa has determined to intervene in the affairs of central america tor for the protection of her own interest and the restoration of peace it is 13 understood today to day from the beat authority that the government of mexico has decided to remain neutral in he the squabble so long aa as the tile righta rights of mexican citizens and the boundaries ies ot of mexico are respected no more troops will be sent to the frontier from official services eer vicea it is ia learned that there are six eix batia battalions lions of infantry y an and d on one rei regiment in a a t of cavalry m men I 1 in n all 11 along n g the border borderline line of guatemala go wal a number sufficiently large to repel any 7 disorderly element that cross wet over the frontier and enough to protect the boundary those in a position to know say that mexico will in no way mix herself up in the difficulties her progress and peace being too valuable for even a t tace thought u of intervention the cuatt mal retreat cm CITY OF MEXICO july 20 26 A late d dispatch to geronimo pou pon fr from am santa ana salvador hador Sa says that on the same day that general antonio ezeta drove the refugees and troops of the guatemalan army strong from salvadorian Salva dorean territory orv the night flight of the enemy was so precipitate that their camp bic equipment I 1 all fell into the hands bands of the among other thing i found were documents telegrams and other pap papers era of general cacoilo alvarez and those of the other offices tit cf the ilia guatemalan forces plainly showing that their movements had been directed by the guatemalan government renor senor pou referred ta tu that pirt which sas says that salvador has invaded our country with fire a and ud sword award f id n the tile following language lana I barillas thinks aks perhaps that the tile salvadorian i under the circumstances cum cumi stances have invaded invade d guatemala with leather feather bueters instead of rifles and cannon 11 manuel degutz the 1 I juat minister here received a 1 dispatch last night dated guatemala dua which says in n the peace compact celebrated in in this capital july joly with the plenipotentiaries laries of costa idest and nicaragua gua and to which the government ov of honduras gave it its a SM adhesion there is one article which says that it is agreed that once established the governments represented will continue their pacific efforts for the union of central america in accordance elih the compact signed at salvador october salvador low now on a the tb aggressive stardard special a F chrona chronicle etc service 1 MEXICO july 20 26 official telegrams from salvador today to day strongly indicate that the a smaller m alter of the central american republics I 1 are making it I 1 interesting rite resting for guatemala in the their irin international t ter er struggle after driving her enemy from her soil ia in the district dietrict brict ot of santa ana salvador became en an invader and after a to temporary check at the out outposts posts of the chingo has caused the guatemalan malan forces to retire to jutiapa Ju tlapa fifty four miles in land on the main wagon road to the guatemalan capi capi al all encounters have occurred on thie this road which connects the two capitals of the conreid ing republics chingo and arid tempa are in a mountain region and are strongly fortified with forte forts and earth earthworms earthworks works and commanding the ia international ter road through thes forti fortified fled passes general antonio ezeta brother of the president of salvador haa his fought foupht hie his way to 0 thirty miles from rom the river jutiapa there it ia is probable the tile next battle will ba be fought it is is strongly fortified and one of the far largest gest areena a in guatemala is I 1 located oc abed there if it the battad takes place guatemala will have a force of about twenty three thousand men in the field and salvador about sixteen thousand and it w will ill be a most sanguinary I 1 iary conflict as salvador believes she I 1 is being imposed upon b by the dictatorial stand taken by barril T laa as in regard to who should be to president of salvador it the aus win this battle it ie is boli believed eved they will posh push on to the guatemalan capital they are the best fighters in central america and it ie Is claimed by a representative of their government here that the recent battles had bad the effect of solidifying tha the factions to ezelah government the reported victory of guatemala 0 over ver salvador alvador amounted to nothing the advance of one of the sal sall addran generals was checked temporarily on guatemalan malan territory but be he did not relinquish hie his position nor the posts he ha had hid captured azes J zea flanked the enemy on the chingo heights and against great odds forced them to abandon their positions and retire lie again gave thorn them battle at gaining a most complete victory senor pou commenting on the die P patch al h from Bar barrillas rillas regarding the declaration of war by azeta said be had no official olli citti information on the subject but stated that guatam guatemala a la bad been the aggressor from the start and probably bar barrillas rillas w was as t trying ry I 1 a 9 to make guatemala appe appear aras as a peacemaker in the eyes of the be world As confirming the at story ory of these victories the following waa was received here tonight to night BAN 8 SAL july 23 25 1890 general antonio ezeta defeated the enemy in chingo and in guatemalan territory dislodging them on thie this bide side of the coco without I 1 b 0 1 resistance chingo and Agate were carried by assault the artillery and munitions muni tiona of 0 war failing into our bands we bave have never had bad a more glorious victory honduras remains in doubt but and costa bics are our friends |