UGLY SITUATION IN NICARAGUA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 12 January 1927, Page 9

UGLY SITUATION IN NICARAGUA.

Mexican Plot Revealed. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SPEAKS OUT. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. WASHINGTON, January 10. President Coolidge, in a special message. explaining the Nicaragua policy to Congress, declared that tlie war munitions supplied to tb e Saensa revolutionists bore evidence of having belonged to the Mexican Government-. Ho added that gun runners to th e Conservatives had apparently outfitted in. Mexico with the encouragement of Mexican officials. President Coolidge said: “Boats carrying these munitions were outfitted at Mexican ports. Some bear evidence of having belonged to tne Mexican Government.” The message recalled that when the United States asked for the co-opera-tion of other States in the embargo on the shipment of arms to Nicaragua, Mexico did not respond, “but'informed the American Ambassador in Mexico City, that in the absence of manufacturing plants in Mexico, for the making of arms and ammunition, the mauer had little practical importance.” Announcing the establishment of two neutral zones in Niearagun, tho State Department said: “The report from Admiral Latimer states that business along the Seeondidi river is paralysed, property seized and conditions are becoming serious as far as American lives are concerned.