WAR DEMANDED
HONDURAS & NICARAGUA
DISPUTE OVER A STAMP CORRECTNESS OF MAP (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ' (Received September 6, 9.50 a.m.) TEGUCIGALPA (Honduras), September 5. Relations between Nicaragua and Honduras, are gravely imperilled owing to a dispute over a recent Nicaraguan postage .stamp which bears an engraved map of Nicaragua, which is alleged to include a section of Honduras's territory. Honduras protested, and Nicaragua coldly retorted* that the stamp portrays. the official map of Nicaragua. Hondifran wrath is approaching detonation point. Nicaraguan residents are being threatened and large numbers of them are being repatriated. Meetings throughout Honduras are demanding war,. A students' manifesto proclaims1 "A decisive moment in our history has arrived. We can break faith with future generations or fight against the dismemberment of the Fatherland.'"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 9
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