REVOLT IN NICARAGUA.
AMERICAN MARINES SUCCESS
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.' (United Press Association.) Washington, October 8. Two American marines and two blue jackets were killed attacking Leon, and many injured. The Americans captured the city, and disarmed tlie remaining rebels. WORSE THAN THE CONGO. BARBARISM IN NICARAGUA. Washington, September 22. Not even the rubber forests of the Congo or of Peru have witnessed such atrocities as those of which the Nicaraguan town of Granda is declared to nave lately been the scene. According to reports received by the State Department in Washington the rebels are now turning upon noncombatants and women and children, their treatment of whonj is described as absolute barbarism. It is believed that Nicaraguan affairs will before long call for European attention. The British ConsulGeneral in Managua has reported that two Britishers have been murdered by tiie rebels at Achuapa, but it is expected that the British Government will await the result of the American campaign before taking action.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 39, 9 October 1912, Page 5
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161REVOLT IN NICARAGUA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 39, 9 October 1912, Page 5
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