NICARAGUAN RISING.
■ 9 ■ FOREIGNERS IN DANGER. By TeleeraDh—Pr69S Association—Copyright New York, August 21. , The State Department considers the conditions in Nicaragua sufficiently serious to warrant tho dispatch of 2000 bluejackets and marines to safeguard foreigners' lives aiid property. Tho cruiser California has been ordered to proceed towards Panama. The transport Prairio has been ordered to embark 700 marines, and will depart for Colon. Tho bluejackcts will bo sent by/,rail across Panama, and embark abdard the California, which will leave promptly for San Juan del Sur and Covinto. According to reports received by the State Departments, a detachment of 5000 Nicaraguan troops defended tho city of Leon unsuccessfully. Rebels besieged them, captured the town, and massacred the entire force of regulars, only seventy men escaping. Tho general conditions throughout Nicaragua are chaotic.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1526, 23 August 1912, Page 5
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131NICARAGUAN RISING. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1526, 23 August 1912, Page 5
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