TROUBLESOME REPUBLICS

Evening Star, Issue 12867, 17 July 1906, Page 6

TROUBLESOME REPUBLICS

CENTRALAMERICA "JNARMS. Press Assocwteon—By Telegraph—Copyright. HJtUATEMALA, July 16. Honduras has declared war against Guatemala. SAN SALVADOR, July 16V (Received July 17,.at 8.47 a.m.) The San Salvadoreans claim that they defeated the Guatemalans at Plantanavo on Saturday, inflicting a loss of 2.000 killed, wounded, and captured. NEW YORK, July 16. San Salvador and Guatemala have accepted tire United States offer to mediate. TEGUCIGALPA, July 16. The President of Honduras denies that he has declared war. [Honduras is tinder popular government. The Congress, of Deputies is chosen for four years, and meets on January l.of each year. The President, who is elected by popular vo*e, is Manuel Ronilla. The army is 500 strong, with 20,000 militia. Guate mala has a national assembly on a universal suffrage basis. The President, who is elected for six years, is Don Manuel Estrada Cabrera. The regular force consists of 7,000 officers and men, the effective army of 56,900 men, and there is a reserve of 30,000. San Salvador has a Congress, elected on universal suffrage for one year. The President (Senor P. Jose Escalon) is elected for fouT years. The army is 3,000 strong, and the militia 18,000.]