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Nicaragua, U. S. citizens and other aliens in the little towns along the Mosquito Coast waited breathlessly for a repetition of the bandit raids which caused the slaughter at Logtown fortnight ago (TIME, April 27). In Washington Secretary Stimson stood firm under the lashings of Big Stick Advocates. The new Hoover-Stimson Nicaraguan policy was backed up by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson with an announcement to the effect that Britain, too, will not attempt to protect her nationals in Nicaragua's interior...
...bandit alarm spread through the Standard Company's fruit plantations about Logtown. At Moss Farm, U. S. overseers and their assistants gathered to catch a company train down the narrow-gauge to safety. Before they knew it, the marauders were upon them. Overseers John Humphreys Bryan, Percy Davis. Hubert Ogelvie Wilson and William Bond Jr., all Standard employes, were butchered, their heads hacked off. Wounded. James Lloyd dived into a ditch, feigned dead until the bandits left. Cathey Wilson escaped by jumping into the Wawa River, hiding two days in the jungle...
Puerto Cabezas, with its 300 U. S. residents, was panic-stricken at the news of the Logtown raid. Next came news that Sandino's bandits had fired Gracias a Dios, 60 mi. north along the Mosquito Coast. Puerto Cabezas knew it would be next. Women and children crowded aboard the Cefalu. In the harbor civilians armed themselves for the town's defense. The night was wild with rumor. Welcome indeed were the lights of the U. S. gunboat Asheville steaming in with a detachment of Marines. These were gingerly put ashore, thereby relieving a slim force of native Guardsmen...
Several Red bandit armies are constantly on the move, integrating their movements by means of field radio. While one or two armies engage Government troops one or two others sack a city, massacre, carry off prominent citizens to be held for ransom, after which all four armies withdraw banditwise to the mountains, split spoils...
...Most brains, much money are provided by Moscow's Third International. Brawn is easily picked up among China's thousands of out-of-work soldiers (China is "at peace" this spring, for the first time in ten years has no formal civil war going). Peasant support for the Red bandit forces has been won by propaganda, bribes even by putting firearms in peasant hands...