NICARAGUAN REBELS
CLEARING THE BATTLEFIELD. HUNDREDS OF BODIES FOUND. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ) VANCOUVER, July 19. A message from Managua (Nicaragua) states that Sunday’s battlefield at Ocotal bears the appearance of a graveyard. Flocks of vultures are on the scene, and the authorities are clearing the field to prevent an epidemic. Three hundred bodies, mostly men killed by a United States aeroplane, were found in olio place. The plane was brought down by gunfire, but the nilot escaped. A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable.
A BAND OF OUTLAWS. WASHINGTON. July 19.
Mr F. B. Kellogg (Secretary of State), in a letter to the president of the American Federation of Labour (Mr H. Green), describes Sandino and his followers as nothing more than outlaws.—A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20156, 21 July 1927, Page 9
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