Castro Stronghold Falls.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 19, 1913:
Loyal Troops Take Coro — Colombia Expresses Friendship for Gomez.
    WILLEMSTAD, Curacao!, Aug. 18.— Coro, the town in the State of Falcon where the revolution first broke out, has been recaptured by Government troops after a fierce battle, according to advices brought here to-day by a schooner from the scene of hostilities. The revolutionary leaders, Gen. Lazaro Gonzales and Gen. Urbina, are said to have been killed in the fight.
    The report, that the Gomez Government has reached an understanding with the rebels at Coro for the detention of members of ex-President Castro's family is contradicted by later advices from Coro.
    A small force of Government troops is reported to have been defeated at Cinamaica by rebels.

    CARACAS, Aug. 18.— Notwithstanding new uprisings which have broken out at various points in Venezuelan territory, it has not been considered necessary to send expeditions from the array of President Gomez, now camped at Maracay, to suppress them.
    Gen. Torres Castro, the son of the ex-Dictator, and his followers, who were captured at Macuro, have been incarcerated in the fort at Puerto Cabello.
    The Government of Colombia to-day notified the Venezuelan Government that Emiliano Lizzaza had been appointed Colombian Minister at Caracas in succession to Dr. J. C. Borda, and the hope was expressed that the friendly relations now existing between the two countries would be continued.
    The appointment of Senor! Lizzaza and the expression of friendliness from Colombia is looked upon as discrediting the reports of serious friction said to have arisen between the two republics over the aid which Augustin Berti and other Colombians living at Cucuta, a tower in the Colombian Department of Santaner, on the Venezuelan frontier, are said to have given to Castro's followers.