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4 ]. S. MARINES
LOSE LIVES
SIX WOUNDED ALSO IN BATTLE
WITH NiCARAGUAN RE1ELs;
TOWN CAPTURED.
HUNDREDS ARE KILLED
Central American Republics Federal
Troops Slain In Fierce Conn
bat At Masaya, Min
lister Reports.

Washington, Oct. -Four Amerk
can marines were killed and six were
wounded when the American forces
took the town of Coyotepe from the
Nicaraguan rebels. according to q
cablegram received by Minister Cas-.
trillo from Chamorro. minister of for
eign affairs of Nicaragua.
Neither the state department nor
the navy department received any
word of the death of American ma
rines, but subsequent additional re-
ports apparently confirm the state
ment of Chamorro.
Officials were shocked at the news
contained in Minister Castrillo's
cablegram.
100 Nicaraguans Killed.
The cablegram to Minister Cas-.
trillo, dated Managua. was as follows:
"Masaya taken by assault. We had
100 dead, 200 wounded. Americans
early took Coyotape with four dead
and six wounded. Correa simultan.
eously took Barranca. Zeledon fled
with followers and was captured eight
leagues from Masaya, wounded. and
died later. Today visited the Ameri'
can legation to express deepest sym.
pathy for marines death. Granada
municipality requested marines bodies
for burial at that city. beg you to
express to the department of state my
deep sympathy.
-"Chamorro, Minister of Affairs"
To- %ho m
is rebel general, Honduran in the
employ of Mena, the fallen dictator.
recently captured and taken to Pana,
ma for exile.
BIuejaekets Also In Fight.
This governments first advices OF
the fight came from American Min.
lister Weitzel, at Managua, in dis.
patch which said the American forces
had driven Zeledon and his rebels
from the Panama hills in thirty-seven
minutes, but said nothing of Correa's
participation in the engagement, men
toned in Chamorro's 'cablegram to
Minister Castrillo.
U. S. Not Engaged In War.
Though the lives of American ma
rines have been lost and others have
been wounded in what appears to have
been one of the most sanguinary bat
ties fought in Central America in
many years, yet, technically, the Unit
ed States is not engaged in war.
As defined by the state department
the status of the relations between the
United States and Nicaragua is one
of friendship. What Rear Admiral
Switzerland has done in attacking
the Nicaraguan rebels is declared to
have been purely in pursuance Of
duty imposed upon the navy many
times in the stormy history of Cen
trail America-that of forcibly protect
ing American lives and property as
we'll as of the citizens of European
nations.
Keeping Highways Open.
The admiral has strictly refrained
from intervening in any way between
the warning factions in Nicaragua
and has confined himself entirely to
opening up railway communication
and maintaining it free from Interrupt
ton, that the large foreign element
scattered throughout the Nicaragua
towns might be able to receive food.
San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua
The town of Leon has surrendered
to the American forces. There il
reason to believe that no fighting oc.
Cured but details of the surrender are
lacking.
Washington. In their march
upon Leon, the last stronghold of the
insurrectionists, the American forces
under Lieutenant-Colon Long ousted
q rebel mob at Chichigalpa, killing 13
outright and wounding many more
Five Americans were slightly wound.