NOT REVOLUTIONARY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 11

NOT REVOLUTIONARY

TROUBLE IN NICARAGUA

DRIVE AGAINST BANDITS

: WASHINGTON/,-21sf '-April, s Seemingly desiring to emphasise the j United States Government's- assertion,! that the Nicaraguan difficulties are not revolutionary, but- simply diie to the activities of murderous bandits, President Hoover has publicly characterised the bandit' leader. Sandino as: haying "placed, himself outside the civilised pale by his cold-blooded: murders." The President added that he was confident'that Sandino ■/would soon be brought ;to justice by the Nicaraguan Guardia Nacionalo now making a determined drive on. the bandits with 1300 men. ■, . ' , Official circles apparently are gratified at the roeeipt of a report of the British Government's decision to make no move on behalf of British /subjects in Nicaragua, but to rely on the protection of the Nicaraguan J-overnment which, according to President Hoover, "has shown' itself fully cognisant of its responsibilities, and Is1 moving vigorously." '■■■:.-

Rea.r-Admiral Smith, commanding the special squadron of U.S. cruisers, has reported to Washington that sixteen foreigners and several native Nicaraguans are known to have been killed by bandits. . ,

These include four Jamaican British citizens, wlio met their .deaths when Sandino and his supporters raided the commissaries of the Bragnian's Bluff Lumber Company;' from -which 21,000 dollars' worth of-stores'were stolen.

■Rear-Admiral Smith described, this occurrence as the, bandits' ondcayour to secure supplies before, the rainy season.