NICARAGUA'S REVOLT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1564, 7 October 1912, Page 5

NICARAGUA'S REVOLT.

If ASAYA B-pCAPTUBED. ' By Teleeraph-Press Aesociatlon-Copyripht (Res. October 6, 5.5 p.m.) , Washington, October 5. The State Department bos been informed that the Nicaraguan Government forces have recaptured : the i town of Masaya, where the revolutionaries were alleged to have perpetrated atrocities on.the foreign residents.

KEEPING THE PEACE IN'NICA. RAGUA, AMERICAN INTERVENTION. The landing of marines and .sailors m Nicaragua nnd their sharing in tho defence of the capital agaiust the attacks of an insurrectionary force, does not (according to the "Literary Digest" of August 2i,j fill American papers with such apprehensions as did the intervention in Uuba and the mobilisation on the Mexican border. The cases are different, we are told. President Diaz asked for assistance, because his own forces were inadequate to the protection of American property in and near Managua. And tho series of revolutionary disturbances which nave afflicted Nicaragua have so retarded tho proper development of that country that noone, in the Charleston "News and Couriers' opinion, should object to this rather drastic manner of soothing General Mena s warlike ambition. General Mena ■was Secretary of War under President Diaz, who succeeded Estrada.' He is said .to be ambitious, influential, and a candidate for the Nicaragua!! Presidency at the next election in. October. Disagreement arose between him and the President, aud General Mena was dismissed from office after refusing- to ; resign. On July 29 he began to make war on tho Government. Ho is in possession of several Nicaraguan cities, and from the hills near Managua he has been bombarding the city with field guns. Early attempts to, carry it by assault "were repulsed with the aid of tho American sailors guarding the United States legation. 'This-, .trouble, thinks tho ' St. Louis "Globe-Democrat," "would have been averted had Congress barkened to the words of the President nnd Secretary of State regarding the loan to Nicaragua," It ' explains: • "By underwriting a loan to Santo Domingo a few years ago, nnd by supervising the collection of the revenues in that country, tho United States.has been tho means of preserving order there, and thus niding us as well'as Santo Domingo. Wβ have braced up the Government there, given a sort 1 of guarantee of stability to it, and have furnished all its creditors with an .assurance that their claims I against that country, if found to-be Ipsitimate, will bo satisfied. Nicaragua's Government has nsked us for a similar ar- ' rangement for herself, nnd tho President and rho Secretary of State have favoured it, but Ormgres* has withheld its approval. Thus the forces of discontent which ate always , more or less active in most of the smaller Latin-American countries, as well ns in somo of tho larger ■ones, have found nn incentive for assault on the Government." Tho "Knox-M organ" policy, as the TCnltinioro "American" understands it. "is to have Nicaragua placo.i under the Iximl ,of an American loan fo as to k«jp peace nnd to proceed Ilius with other noisy little republics." This interesting episode, it adds, "may hnvp wide consequence, and may establish a precedent for the creation nf n debtor relation of the lesser republics or one of them to this country in aninunti and under condition?! Hint would insure ppueo."