NICARAGUAN REVOLT.
HOT SKIRMISH. ONE HUNDRED KILLED. (Received 12 noon.) MANAGUA, September 1. burgeons and Red Cross workers were rushed on Wednesday to the vicinity of Coseguina on the West Coast, where sixty Government troops and forty rebels were killed in an eight-hour battle. The rebels fled, leaving behind them five machine puns, five hundred rifles, and a quantity of provisions, also important documents revealing plans.— (A. and N.Z.) CAPE GRACIAS CAPTURED. REVOLUTIONISTS' SUCCESS. MANAGUA (Nicaragua), August 26. The revolutionists have captured Cape Gracias, on the east coast, to-day. The cruiser Rochester has arrived at Bragoans Bluff, where she will protect foreign interests. The Government reports that the revolutionists were defeated in a skirmish near the Gulf of Forseca and driven "back to the mountains. — (Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 2 September 1926, Page 7
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