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Likelihood Of A Clash

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
April
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is tele here that the situation is ono justifying apprehension and anjcioty on j the part of our own government. While j it is not expected that the Nicaraguan government will offer any armed resistance to the landing of the British forens it is feared tbut during the time tho town is occupied by loreigners the natives may j be reslrained with diffioulty, and tho cloao contact into which tho twodiscordant i ments will cortainly be brought might at any moment lead tu an outbreak ; ing up in a general war. The tunuru of the present Nicaraguan : government is none loo secure, and it is ! lelt iliat it would b expecting almost too uiuch trom it to hopu that it could ■ resist successtully an impulso of the ; pie tow.ird war. It is evident that our : Btate department has not lost sight of this ; possibility, for Secretary Gresham bas ■ been in consultation with the president , and Nicaraguan minister on the subject, ' and it is believed that he has beon using ' hls best efforts to prevent a resort to i tremes by intimating that the indomnlty { had bettêr be paid. Tho limit of time allowed Nicaragua to yield expires today.and the blockade, landing of troopf and seizure of oustoms houses is to begin immediately thoreafter. There is a gootl reason to believo that Nicaragua is not likely to yield, but will allow British troops to oecupy Cortnto in order tbat conspiououa attuntion may be drawa to what is regardort by Nicaragua, as an invasión of tho Monroe doctrine.

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