The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-29
NO MORE TROOPS
TO Be SENT TO
NICARAGUA
President Rescinds Orders tor
10th Cavalry
SITUATION is IMPROVING
Sufficient Force of Marines to Pro-
tect American Lives and Amer
lean Property.

Washington, ! Aug. 29.-President
Taft last night rescinded his 12-hour-
old order directing the immediate
dispatch from Panama to Nicaragua
of the 10th infantry. From his prl-
vate car in the Rochester New YORK
wards the president wired to the act
ing secretary of war to recall the or
der. A sufficient force of marines,
the president said last night would
be in Managua, the Nicaraguan cap
ital. and Corinto, its principal sea
mort, early next week, to insure the
safety of American lives and proper
ty.
The presidents action last night
came at the close of a day spent
largely in considering kilograms from
state, war and navy department
heads at Washington. The president
expressed last night the belief that
there would be more than 1000 United
States marines on Nicaraguan soil
by Tuesday. A long telegram last
night from the commander of the gun
boat Denver in Nicaraguan waters
declared that the insurgent leaders
mad given assurance that they would
open IU6 llutS VI AhO'a
Corinto to Managua. The Nicaragu-
an government itself asked for as
sistance from the United States and
stands ready to aid in opening the
railway line TO the coast from the
capital
The message 10 the president said
that the rebels possess five locomo-
tives and the government five. All ten
of these may be put at the disposal
of the United States If necessary.
The recall of the order for the dis
patch of the 10th infantry followed
the receipt of this telegram from the
Denver. The president did not con-
ceal his anxiety last night over con-
ditions in the Central American re-
public. In Managua and Corinto and
other towns the situation is not now
especially dangerous to Americans,
but in other parts of the country the
revolution is not in hand and pillag-
ing of all sorts has been going on.
The people of Nicaragua, the presi-
dent was informed, are suffering I'M
told horrors, and Americans are suf-
fering with them.
To friends last night, Mr.. Taft de-
clared that if the Senate had agreed
to the proposed treaty with Nicaragua
which he advocated on his long trip
last fall, the misery existing today
would never have arisen. Under that
treaty the United States, he said.
would have administered the Gus
toms of Nicaragua. and since the Gus
toms are practically the only source
of revenue of that country, there
would have been little to attract a
revolutionist unless he wished to at
tack the United States. During the
day the president received several
long messages from Acting Secretary
of State Huntington Wilson in Wash
ington His order to the 10th intan-
try to advance on Nicaragua was is
sued in Beverly, just before he left
for Columbus. O., where he speaks
today. Messages from Mr. Wilson
were received at Albany, n. Y, and
at other points east of Rochester and
kilograms from the navy department
also kept coming to Mr. Taft's pri-
vate car. Neither the state nor the
navy department wished to see Unit
ed States troops sent into Nicaragua.
The custom in similar cases has Deen
to land marines. The president said
yesterday that while the sending OF
a regiment of infantry would not be
an act Of war, he would prefer to use
marines, if an available force could
be found quickly. His kilograms to
Washington were fruitful for he be-
lieved last night that the navy had
found enough marines to look after
every American and all American
property that might be endangered
If he finds the situation critical later.
he will not hesitate to use the army,
but he was hopeful that the insur-
recto and government leaders would
see the futility of trying to make it
uncomfortable for American citizens.