ALLEGED BARBARISM
CABLE NEWS
(United Frcu Aitociation—By Efcett& I'ckgraph—Copyright.)
BY REBELS
UNITED STATES TAKES ACTION.
(Received Last Night, 5 o'clock.)
WASHINGTON, August 28
President Taft lias directed the Tenth United States Infantry to leave for the Canal zone and make a landing in Nicaragua within forty-eight hours.
Conditions bordering on barbarism throughout the country .have. been reported to President Taft.
General Altschenl, the revolutionary Junta in Washington ton, denies tho charges of barbarity brought against the rebels. Ho asserts that the burning of the bodies of the slain was merely .a sanitary precaution, and not duo to mere barbarity. The Americans, he says would not have been attacked if they had not prevented the rebels from capturing and operating tb railway between Manigua- and Corinto.
The American Minister reports the constant meeting at Manigua, and indiscriminate attacks by Hie rebels. American residents are in constantperil of their lives.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10707, 30 August 1912, Page 5
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148ALLEGED BARBARISM Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10707, 30 August 1912, Page 5
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