QUARRELS ADD TO EARTHQUAKE’S TRAGEDY
Many Natives Executed 625 BODIES RECOVERED United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 9.25 p.m. MANAGUA, April 4. A scries of untoward incidents due to conflicts between natives and Americans administering relief or enforcing military law have added to the tiagedy of the earthquake disaster. A member of the American Marines shot and killed a lieutenant of the Nicaraguan National Guard and was himself machine-gunned to death by a native soldier to-day.
The announcement that the American authorities would feed no native men who declined to dig for the dead in the debris resulted in an unpleasant situation with many natives not appearing for- rations. Four looters wore- shot to-day by the military. It is understood that twenty have been executed since last Tuesday. Five natives digging in the debris for trifles were killed by falling walls in a brief earthquake to-day. So far 525 bodies have been removed from the ruins. A hundred are known to be buried under a collapsed hospital alone.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5618, 6 April 1931, Page 7
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169QUARRELS ADD TO EARTHQUAKE’S TRAGEDY Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5618, 6 April 1931, Page 7
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