BY ANOTHER NAME.

Wairarapa Age, 22 February 1927, Page 5

BY ANOTHER NAME.

AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN NICARAGUA.

FORCES LANDED TO RESTORE ORDER. (Received Monday, 7.30 p.m.). WASHINGTON, February 20. Without actually calling it by that name, America appears to have assumed a policy of practical intervention at Nicaragua Admiral Latimer landed two thousand marines, and several transports are en route with reinforcements. Their object is to put an end to the present internal fighting by intervention with superior forces. Practically tho whole country has been defined as a neutral zone and Doctor Saeas has been informed that he must desist from his insurrection. The American commander has also announced that ho is continuing to intercept shipments of arms from Mexico from the rebels.—(A. and N.Z.). INTERVENTION OPPOSED. SENATOR BORAH’S PROTEST. (Received Monday, 9.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 20. While the rumour that the United States has intervened in Nicaragua is denied by the State Department, which has explained that the landing of additional troops was merely to protect foreign and American lives and was done with the full approval of the Nicaraguan Government, Senator Borah (Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) in an important address condemned the Government’s policy in Central America. He said it ought to be regarded as a crime to defend by force and with American marines a title or claim for property which cannot stand the inspection of arbitration. We are bound in national honour and as a proper rule of decency to give due weight to the rights, liberties, independence and social and moral wellbeing of the people of the country which wo are asked to invade.”—(A and N.Z.)