Great Britain and Nicaragua.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 254, 30 April 1895, Page 2

Great Britain and Nicaragua.

THE BEGINNING of HOSTILITIES. LANDING OF THE ENGLISH TROOPS. NICARAGUA URGED TO PAY UP. (Per Press Association.) New York, April 28. The Nicaraguan public has subscribed £20,000 to meet the indemnity demanded by the British Government. President Cleveland, speaking in connection with the trouble said it was necessary to maintain the independence of the South American States against armed Europeans, and that he would resist by armed force auy attempt of a European Power to establish itself on the American continent. However, in the case of the trouble with Nicaragua, he thought the circumstances did not warrant the intervention of the Umtted States. Washington, April 27. The Nicaraguan Government has sent a protesr to the Great Powers agaiast what is termed " The highly offensive and outrageous action of Great Britain and her absolute disregard of justice." Government demands that the dispute bo submitted to arbitration. April 29. The civil officials in Corinto fled after sacking the public building?, taking the keys with them. Later information states that the British sailors and marines, with the exception of about fifty, have re embarked on board the warships, and the town is practically deserted. Thero is considerable excitement in Managua, thfl capital in consequence of the abortive attempt to wreck the British Consulate, and the populace is clamouring for imus to oppose the British. Corinto was occupied at night under a blaze of searchlights from the warships, the crews of which manned the guns ready to open fire on the first signs of opposition to the force sent ashore. The Nicaraguan Government has declared the port closed, and will confiscate goods taken inland from there. Guatemala, San Salvador, and Costa Rica have urged Nicaragua to pay up. Costa Rica offered to find a sth of the money. The Government, however, is in fear of the mob, asd on this account they also declined the offer of American mediation. Mobs parade the streets of Managua crying " Death to the British tyrants !" Washington, April 28. The Nicaraguan Government has ordered the Garrison not to fight unless the British troops cross the lagoon. The President of tbe Niearaguan Republic, Senor Don Jose Felaza, announces that during the term of occupation of Corinto by the British he will regard all imported goods as smuggled into the country, irrespective of whether they pay duty or not. He also states that iv future British goods will be excluded from enteriog the port. The populace attacked the British 'consulate in Managua, the capital, and damaged the building. (Per 'Frisco Mail Steamer.) It was reported from Washington, April Ist, that a fleet of American warships —the New York, Minneapolis, Columbia, Atalanta, Raleigh, and Cincinnati, with Montgomery and Range —have been ordered to Bluefields, Nicaragua, to maintain the integrity of the " Monroe doctrine," threatened, as it believed by the American Government, by tho insistaace of Great Britain in the demand against the Central American Hepublic for £15,000 indemnity for the expulsion of British vice- Consul Hatcl from Bluefields, and the arrest oi other British citizens there. A special from Panama of Apri 4th. says : " The British cruiser Roya Arthur, with Admiral Slephenson arrived on that date from Callao From one of her officers it was learnec that landing parties are being organised, and were drilled during the voyage. The officer said the objective point of the vessel was Corinto, Nica ragua, where it was likely she would land men if Great Britain's claim against Nicaragua was not satisfied, The Ryyal Arthur was awaiting further instructions from the Admiralty before proceeding to the Nicaragua Mosquito reservation. Great Britaii is to name one of the coinmissionen and Nicaragua another, and these two shall choose a third, who shall not be a citizen of the United States. Ii was also made known that a Brifcisl warship ia now on her way to Nicaragua to enforce these demands, which must be complied with in seven weeks from the 25 th of February last*