NICARAGUAN TROUBLE
PROTECTING BRITISHERS
WHY WARSHIP WAS SENT
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, 2nd March. Answering a number of questions in the Houso of Commons regarding tho stops taken to protect British interests in Nicaragua, Sir Austen Chamberlain said that on 3rd January Mr. Patteson, tho British Charge d'Affaires at Managua, requested the United States Minister to extend to British subjects tho benefit of any measures taken by tho United States Government to protect United States citizens in Managua. On 28th January, on inquiry by the United States Government, the British Ambassador at Washington confirmed this roquest. On 17th Fobruary Mr. Patteson telegraphed that conditions woro very menacing, and that tho United States Minister could give no guarantee for the safety of British lives and property in threo of the principal towns. Under the3o circumstaueos His Majesty's Govornmont judged it their duty to order tho'warship Colombo to proceed at onco to servo ns a baso of rofuge for British refu'goes should need arise.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1927, Page 9
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162NICARAGUAN TROUBLE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1927, Page 9
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