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TROUBLE IN HONDURAS. BRITISH CONSUL FIRED ON. Press Association—By Tel. —Copyright. Received y.20 p.m., Oct. 10th. NEW YORK, Oct. 10. Tho "New York Sun's Guatemala advices state that foreigners at Aniapala, Honduras, fled owing to General Valadares, the commandant, ordering all Americans and Britishers to be imprisoned and their property confiscated. The bulk of the Americans' property was seized.
The British Consul fled to San Salvador, amid a shower of bullets from the troops. The commandant wanted to arrest him and charge him with fomenting a revolution.
Tlie Consul has asked for a warship and the commandant threatens to burn the city immediately a warship is sighted. .
The American gunboat Princeton, now at Acapulco, has been ordered to A ma pa la.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14321, 11 October 1910, Page 5
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125A MAD COMMANDANT. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14321, 11 October 1910, Page 5
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