MANAGUA EARTHQUAKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20840, 6 April 1931, Page 9

MANAGUA EARTHQUAKE.

UNTOWARD INCIDENTS. CONFLICTS WITH NATIVES, INSTANCES OF SHOOTING. LOOTERS PUT TO DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received April 5, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 4. A despatch from Managua, Nicaragua, says a series of untoward incidents — principally duo to conflicts between natives and the Americans, who are administering relief or enforcing military law have added 'to tho, tragedy of the recent earthquake. A member of tho American marines was fatally shot by a lieutenant of the Nicaraguan National Guard and the latter was killed with machine-gun firo by a native soldier to-day. iho announcement that tho American authorities would feed no native men who declined to dig for the dead in tho debris resulted in an unpleasant situation, many of tho natives failing to apply for rations.

Four looters were shot to-day by the military, and it is understood that 20 havo been executed since last Tuesday. Fivo natives who were digging in the debris for trifles were killed by falling walls.

Up to the present 825 bodies havo been removed from the ruins of tho city and 100 others aro known to havo been buried beneath tho collapsed hospital alone.