OBSTINATE ZELAYA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 671, 23 November 1909, Page 5

OBSTINATE ZELAYA.

EXECUTION OF AMERICANS. ATTRIBUTED, TO PERSONAL ENMITY. MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS. (By Telegraph—Press Assoclatlon-GopyrluhU (Roc. November 22, > ' 9.20 p.m.) Now York,, Novomber 22. Tho action of President Zolaya, of Nicaragua, in respect of two Amoricans, who wore found 6crving with tho Nicaraguan revolutionaries, and who were executed, despite a consular appeal for commutation of the sentence, has led to further movbments of United States war-

Tim "New York. Times"..states .that the Washington ■ Government >is dissatisfied with Nicaragua's explanations. The' American ViceConsul at Managua, the. capital of Nicaragua, declarosthat the' executions are due to President Zelaya's personal enmity to,one of the executed men. ...The State Department at Washington: appears to' hold, that. the. men' were engaged in a legitimate act of warfare. :' The third-class cruiser Tacoma has", been ordered, from Cuba to jristobal, in Panama, where -she will be available if necessary, for' the transport of marines' from the Canal zone to Nicaragua. • . V. ■ ■The gunboat Marietta has been.sent to Port Liirion, on, tho east coast of Costa Rica, south .of Nicaragua.' ' ', . ■.'■"■ •.;. „■ [The executed Americans were: charged .\by President Zelaya:with plaoing dynamite mines and : attempting , to : explode them-' under steamers .laden with ! Government troops at Greytown, Nicaragua.] '