NICARAGUAN REVOLT.
A GARRISON MASSACRED. V.S. MARINES DISPATCHED. TO PROTECT FOREIGITERS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrtgnt.) (Received 11.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 21. The Department of State considers conditions in Nicaragua sufficiently serious to warrant the dispatch of 2,000 bluejackets and marines to safeguard foreigners' lives and property. The cruiser California has been ordered to Panama, and the transport Prairie has been ordered to embark 700 marines and depart for Colon, on the eastern coast of Panama. The bluejackets will be railroaded across the Panama Isthmus and will embark aboard the California and leave promptly for San Juan del Sur, in the sout.li of Nicaragua, and C'orinto, the port connected by rail with Managua, the capitalAccording to reports received by the State Department, a detachment of'o.OOO Xiearaguan troops defended the city of Leon, on the railway. 00 miles from the capital. The rebels besieged them, captured the town and massacred the entire force of regulars, only 70 men escaping. The general conditions throughout Nicaragua are chaotic.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 201, 22 August 1912, Page 5
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