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Once again U. S. marines were sent last week to occupy Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. Round about the city marched and countermarched the armies of the usurper, President Chamorro and the Liberal counter-revolutionary leader, onetime Vice President Sacassa. Total casualties for the week were roughly estimated at 100. After a particularly fierce skirmish, President Chamorro courteously requested the commander of the U. S. gunboat Tulsa, which was anchored at the port of Corinto, to steam seven miles up the coast to the scene of battle and take care of the wounded, since neither army was equipped with...
...date the U, S, has not recognized the regime of General Emiliano Chamorro who forced the Nicaraguan Congress to elect him President after he had virtually seized that office by a military coup (TIME, Sept. 21). Neither has General Chamorro been recognized as president by a potent Nicaraguan faction led by onetime Vice President Sacasa, whom General Chamorro compelled Congress to banish. Operating from Guatemala, Dr. Sacasa has launched a series of insufficiently prepared and unsuccessful revolts. Last week these counter revolutions were deemed of sufficient magnitude by Secretary Kellogg to call for the presence of U. S. gunboats...
...Nicaraguan Congress at once declared the nation in a state of war, and President Chamorro proceeded to put 3,000 men under arms as quickly as possible. Meanwhile the revolutionaries captured El Bluff. The U. S. cruiser Cleveland was thereupon ordered to Nicaraguan waters...
With Honduras and Mexico setting the example, the Nicaraguan Presidential primaries made a bold bid for the front page of U. S. newspapers. Aspirants for the Presidential nomination of the Conservative Party, which has governed Nicaragua since 1910, include General Emiliano Chamorro, former Minister to the U. S., and Dr. Carlos Cuadra Pasos, Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Government sent a force to Granada, Conservative stronghold, and seized primary ballots, consisting of 12,000 rifles, 6 machine guns, 50 Lewis machine guns, 240 cases of ammunition from the arsenal. This raid was followed by a riot among partisans...
Died. Diego Manuel Chamorro, President since 1921 of Nicaragua, at San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, after a long illness, from diabetes...