NICARAGUAN REVOLT

Evening Star, Issue 19351, 10 September 1926, Page 5

NICARAGUAN REVOLT

THE POSITIOH 03SGURE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SAN SALVADOR, September 9. (Received September 10, at 9.5 a.m.) A Nicaraguan revolutionary war communique says: “General Moncada captured all tho heights dominating Bluefields and Chamorro. A Government statement asserts that the heights were recaptured.” The area of- Nicaragua is estimated at 51,660 English square miles, and it has a coastline of about 300 miles on the Atlantic and 200 miles on tho Pacific. Tho population, according to the census of 1920, was 638,119. At least 75 per cent, of the inhabitants live in the western half of the country. Tho two halves of the Republic differ in many respects, and there is little communication between them, the journey bv trail and river being so slow and difficult that passengers go by way of Costa Rica, while the small amounts of merchandise shipped from one side to the other are sent mainly via Panama. The people of the western half of tho Republic are mostly of mixed Spanish and Indian extraction, though there arc a considerable number of pure Spanish descent, and many Indians. The population of the eastern half is composed mainly of Mosquito and Zambo Indians, and negroes from Jamaica and other islands of the Caribbean Sea, with some Americans and n comparatively smaller number of Nicaraguans from tho western half of the Republic. Tho active army consists of 2,500 men in peace, rising to 7,000. in war. Military service is obligatory between seventeen and fifty-five years of age. The navy consists of one very small boat, capable of carrying a machine gun and twenty-five men.