NICARAGUA

Evening Star, Issue 19765, 16 January 1928, Page 5

NICARAGUA

PROTECTION OF AMERICAN INTERESTS Press Asst elation—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, January 14. The Chicago ‘ Tribune’s ’ political correspondent states that, under instructions given by President Coolidge, who leaves to-morrow to address tho sixth Pan-American Conference, the American delegates will preserve intact the United States’s complete liberty of action in the protection of rights and interests by forcible means if necessary in the Western Hemisphere, particularly in the Caribbean region, and will permit no of the Monroe Doctrine.

The issue of the Nicaraguan situation is further complicated by reports that President Diaz, of Nicaragua, will shortly resign, on the ground that the United States Government has not accorded him the support he expected, and that Ins present position is futile and undignified. President Machido, of Cuba, declared to-day that it was not within the province of the conference to assume the role of a tribunal judge on the Nicaraguan problem or tho general policy of the United States. Reports from Mexico state that the Mexican delegation may nevertheless bring up the question. FORTY REBELS KILLED. MANAGUA, January 14. (Received January 16, at 1.30 a.ra.) The United States marine air squadron attacked Elchipota to-day and killed forty rebels.