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...mountain pueblo named Boaco, in the department of Chontales, Nicaragua. This Central American stronghold is where General Jose Maria Moncada, chief of the Liberal forces, delivered his arms to my marines on May 13. In wet weather it is reached by horse or pack-mule only. Occasionally an aeroplane drops mail to us. However the mail reaches us, the periodical which I first open is TIME, short, snappy, to the point, a mental feast. Critics to the contrary notwithstanding. I still persist in reading TIME from p. 1 to the bitter end. Please do not permit our great friend...
Accordingly, Mr. Stimson conferred with the Liberal military leader, General Jose Maria Moncada last week at Tipitapa, while some 50 U. S. marines stood guard. Next day General Moncada made public the following letter...
...Dear General Moncada...
...General Moncada then informed the Associated Press that, since the U. S. was threatening to disarm his troops by force, he would do all in his power to persuade his men to hand over their arms to U. S. marines without fighting...
Upon the U. S. cruiser Rochester, anchored off the east coast of Nicaragua, Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer received last week representatives of the unrecognized de facto government of Nicaragua and the militant leader of Nicaragua's revolutionaries, General Jose Maria Moncada. President Chamorro of Nicaragua conveyed through his representatives the terms of an armistice which he was willing to conclude with the embattled revolutionaries (TIME, May 17 et seq.). General Moncada accepted the terms of armistice with slight modifications. Loomed a peace conference under U. S. auspices, at which Usurper Chamorro, and the "revolutionaries" (really "counter revolutionaries...