BLUEFIELDS INVESTED
PIERCE FIGHTING AMERICAN MARINES -HURRYING TO THE SCENE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, May 29. The Nicaraguan troops, under General Lara, made a desperate assault on tlio positions occupied by the Provisional Government's Army (under General Estrada, who, in October last, assumed the provisional presidency of tho Atlantic Coast States) entrenched at Eluefields. ' General Lara's forces were repulsed, losing £3O killed and wounded. _ American marines aro hurrying to Bluefieids to enforce order. Fighting will then be forbidden within the city.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7141, 31 May 1910, Page 5
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