CHAOS IN SAN SALVADOR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10582, 11 October 1910, Page 4

CHAOS IN SAN SALVADOR.

[Br Electric Telegraph —Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.)

Received October 10, at 9.20 p.m

Now York. October 10. The New 'York Sim's Guatemala advices state tfi:ifc the foreigners at Araapala, Honduras, have lied owing to General Valadare, the commandant, ordering all Americans aiul ,Isilti.sliers to be imprisoned and their property confiscated. The liuik of (lie Americans' property was seized, and the, British Consul fled to San Salvador amid • a shower of bullets from the troops. The commandant wanted to arrest him, on a charge of fomenting a revolution.. The Consul has asked for a warship,; and the commandant threatens to burn.: the- city immediately the warship ..is sighted. _ . The American gunboat Princeton, no<v at Acapulco, has been ordered to Auiapala.

Received October 11,' at 8.25, a.m. / London, October 10. Ail official version of the, Honduras, trouble received in Washington, states that General Davila succeeded. General. Bonilla in.the Presidency,,and General Valadare, seizing Amapala, established his rule there with complete disregai of.Davila. , , . . , > The- latter declares that lie intends, to dislodge Valadare.