ECHO OF REVOLUTION.
CLAIM FOR MONEY. BY GUATEMALAN REPUBLIC. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON, March 25. A romantic suit, involving £25,000 deposited in a London bank in 1906 by Cabrera, President of Guatemala, who after a revolution died in prison, has been commenced by the Guatemalan Government, which claims the money, declaring that Cabrera acted on behalf of the Republic. Cabrera s son Estrad is the defendant, and asserts that the Government’s claim is based on documents his father signed in prison under threats of death. Counsel said that he did not wish to endanger international relations, hut the plaintiffs could not he trusted an inch. When Estrad went to Guatemala for his father’s funeral _he was arrested with a view to ending the dispute, hut escaped. The judge declined to appoint a commission to take evidence in_ Guatemala. and adjourned the hearing till May 4 to enable witnesses to be brought to England.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 March 1926, Page 7
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