The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-16

 DOLLAR DIPLOMACY BITTERLY ATTACKED
 BY JUAN LETS Former Military Chief of Grenada Department
 Reviews Policy
DISCORD CREATED
 BY KNOX'S POLICIES
In Memorial Addressed to Congress Leets Characterizes Morgan Loan Contract as Distasteful
 to All Concerned

New Orleans, December 15.--In me- morial addressed to Congress and con- ta1ning a review of his recent testi- mony before the Senate committed, which has under investigation acts of United States officials and citizens in relation to the late Nicaraguan revolu- ton, made public today, Juan Leets, former military chief of Granada de- partment, Nicaragua, bitterly arraigned the so-called dollar diplomacy" of the state department. He charges that the policies of Secretary Knox have brought Nicaragua and Honduras to state of poverty, created discord and revolu- ton and engendered throughout Latin America generally bitter feelings to- ward the American government.
 In referring to the Morgan loan con- tracts which the state department pre- sented to Honduras and Nicaragua, and which the United States Senate has de- clined to approve. General Leets as- serts they were designed to give to a cotorie of Wall street bankers not only millions of dollars tainted with illigitimacy, and opportunity for inn mense graft, but an absolute license to exploit the vast resources of the coun- tries and even administer their gov ernmental affairs"
 The seven American marines who were killed in battles with Nicaraguan revolutionists in September, he says, were sacrificed in order that an execu- tive pledge to support New York loan might be continued in power.
 Referring to the famous Hornet ex- petition which left New Orleans in De- cember 1910, General Leets says:
 With the full Knowledge of the state department fl,bustering expedi- tions have been permitted to leave gulf ports for Central America, and in one Instance the knowledge of the depart ure of such an expedition was used as a bludgeon in desperate effort to force the president of Honduras to ap- prove a Morgan loan contract, which, it was known, was distasteful alike to the president, the congress and the people of Honduras"
 The memorial contains some inter- esting official documents, including copies of cablegrams which recently passed between President Taft and President Araujo of Salvador and copies of cablegrams exchanged between the leaders Of the 1909 revolution. Two of these cablegrams signed "Castrillo," at that time agent of the revolutionists lin Washington and now Nicaraguan minister to Washington, would indicate that Admiral Kimball was recalled from Central American waters because he supported the Madriz government against the Estrada revolutionists others of these cablegrams purport to show that President Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala supplied quantities of arms and ammunition to the Nicaraguan revolution of 1909. and that large shup- ments of war materials were made from New Orleans openly and landed at Blue fields under the guns of United States war vessels without the slightest mo- lestation.
 General Leets expects to leave for Washington within few days to give further testimony before the Senate committee.