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...shipload of other insurgents. Their plan was to go down the coast, land, take charge of revo lutionary forces that had already taken the field, sweep into Havana in triumph. There was some traitor in the club. The Coral was scarcely free of the pier before Cuban gunboats started in pursuit. Seventeen men, including onetime President Menocal's two brothers Fausto and Guatimon slipped ashore to sidetrack the pursuers. They were promptly arrested and clapped into Cabana fortress. The Coral disappeared in the direction of Cuba's western tip, Pinar del Rio. Three days later the puffing gunboat...
...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 who went scurrying off into the bush on a bandit chase...
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...
...landed sailors and marines in Santo Domingo last week to help hollow-eyed President Rafael Trujillo scavenge his hurricane smitten city. Seventy-five Royal Marines from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...
...Tromsö the Swedish gunboat Svenskimd waited with the bodies of Andrée and Strindberg for the Isbjoern to arrive with Fraenkel's remains, when it would conduct all three to Stockholm...