AMERICA AND NICARAGUA

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1067, 4 March 1911, Page 5

AMERICA AND NICARAGUA

CHARGES BY ZELAYA. By Telegraph-Press »inn•• Cnpjrr!»bt. Mow York, March 2. A report from New Orleans states that Senor Zelaya (ex-President of Nicaragua) has issued a statement accusing tho Taft Government of shamolessly aiding the recent rebellion. He warns the Latin-American nations that the United States intends to seize the Central American Republics. -.AN OLD QUARREL. The United States Government dn December!, 1909. severed-official relations with tho Zelaya Government in Nicar-agua-and opened unofficial diplomatic relations with Senor Castrillo, the revolutionists representative at Washington. •Tills action placed tho two Nicaraguan factions on the same footing in Washington. It was announced in a remarkable letter addressed to Senor Rodriguez b'v Secretary Knox, and by him given to the public. At the beginning .the Secretary Bays: — ," S i r^ S /, nc ? "shingtoii; conventions of 1907 it is notorious that President Zolaya has almost continuously kept Central America in tension o? turmoil, that lie has repeatedly and flagrantly violated the provisions ot the conventions, and tuft baleful influence upon Honduras, whose neutrality the conventions were to assure, has sought to discredit those =acrcd international obligations to the great detriment of Costa Rica, El Salvador; and Guatemala, whose Governments meanwhile appear to have been able patientlv to strive for the loyal support of the engagements so solemnly undertaken at Washington under the auspices of tho United States and of Mexico. It is equally a matter of common knowledge that under tho regime of President Zelaya republican institutions have ceased in Nicaragua to exist except in name; that public opinion and the pro's havo been throttled, and that prison lias been tho reward of any tendency to real patriotism. Mv consideration for vou personally impels me to abstain from u n necessary discussion of tho painful do tails of a regime which unfortunately has been a blot upon tho history of Xlcar'a gua and a discouragement to a group of republics wlio.se aspirations need only the opportunity of free and honest government."