NICARAGUAN REVOLT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 826, 26 May 1910, Page 5

NICARAGUAN REVOLT.

t REPORTS OP FIGHTING. c j By TeloßTauh—Press Association—CooTrleht London, May 24. A Now York telegram says that the Nicaraguan gunboat (.'British cruiser) Venus sunk the revolutionary gunboat Omottopo, and that a hundred rebels were drowned. A subsequent message denies this report. Despite the warnings of tho United States, fighting at Bluefields, Nicaragua, is probable. The British cruiser Scylla, 3400 tons, has sailed for Bluefields. [The British cruisers Venus and Scylla ' are both attached to the Atlantic fleet, and it is probable that tho Venus referred to in tho denied report is the i British cruiser and not a Nicaraguan . gunboat. In January the commander of ' tho Scylla issued a warning to both sides that fighting would not be allowed near s Greytown.] j . i •A FIERCE ATTACK. a BRITISH TROOPS EEPOETED TO BE ' LANDING. ■* (Ree. May 25, 10.15 p.m.) ) London, May 21. f The Nicaragnan forces, under. General Lara are fiercely ataeking tho Provisional Government's army under General Tarada (? Estrada), which is entrenched behind Bluefields. The (British) cruiser Venus is landing 500 troops northwards of Bluefields, to reinforce Lara.