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ornment would effect his overthrow. He was told 

 that President Barillas of Guatemala had offered 

 to Gen. Ayala and his friends arms, money, and 

 men for a revolution in Salvador. The Salva- 

 dorian minister in Mexico appealed to the Mexi- 



Gnatemala, Gen. Alatorre, Mexican minister to 

 Central America, threatened President Barillas 

 with armed intervention if the hostilities be- 

 tween Guatemala and the existing Government 

 of Salvador were renewed. President Ezeta 



ILOPANOO VOLCANO, SAN SALVADOR. 



can Minister of Foreign Affairs to interfere to 

 prevent the revolution that Guatemala was sus- 

 pected of fostering, and as the Mexican Gov- 

 ernment is opposed to the union of the Cen- 

 tral American republics under the leadership of 



showed how great were his fears by dismissing 

 Gen. Amaya from the War Department and ban- 

 ishing Gen. Plazas and other persons. In Sep- 

 tember Dr. F. Galindo retired from the Ministry 

 of Foreign Affairs, and was succeeded by Dr. Sal- 



