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When the big new cruiser Memphis arrived, the Asheville moved up to Gracias a Dios. Down the coast at Bluefields arrived the U. S. gunboat Sacramento; from Panama hurried the Rochester, flagship of the Special Service Squadron. But what U. S. citizens along the Nicaraguan coast could not understand was why these war vessels, as on former occasions of murder and insurrection, did not immediately debark their fighting forces and plunge them into the jungle to exact eye-for-an-eye justice...
Four o'clock in the morning, seven hours later, Alfonso's car roared down to the docks at Cartagena. Police kept back the crowd. A little group of naval officers stood huddled at the end of the pier in the starlight. The Captain's barge from the cruiser Principe Alfonso rose and fell with the tide. King Alfonso in a brown overcoat and grey felt hat jumped from his car, strode forward nervously puffing a cigaret. Grey-haired Admiral Magaz, onetime member of Dictator Primo de Rivera's cabinet advanced snuffling con solations. Alfonso threw aside his cigaret...
Having spoken in the Gould gambling house at Nice, and having been roundly cheered, popular Gastounet proceeded to Villefranche - the town where tourists on the Riviera always see French war boats. Boarding the cruiser Colbert amid a 21-gun salute, Gastounet sailed for Tunis...
...bandit, General Augusto Sandino, who had voluntarily announced suspension of hostilities, was not to blame. But on Nicaragua's east coast bandits of some sort killed U. S. Marine Captain Harlem Pefley, Lieut. Darrah and Sergeant Taylor at Logtown, surrounded another Marine detachment from the U. S. cruiser Asheville (rumor said 25 Marines were killed), caused the U. S. cruiser Memphis to dash over from Guantanamo Bay with a rescue force...
...from the Canal Zone came the cruiser Rochester. The transport Chaumont, due at Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than...