The Irish standard., 1912-08-31
REVOLT ST|RS
UNITED STATES
GENERAL CENTRAL AMERICAN
OUTBREAK FEARED BY THE
STATE DEPARTMENT.
AMERICANS WANT HELP.
daft Takes Hand, But RecInds First
order.-MarInes Guarding
Foreigners.

washington, Aug. 29.-Grave con.
Germ over the situation in Nicaragua
Ia expressed at the state department.
A single direct dispatch from Mica.
ragua told Of serious situation in
Matagalpas. The dispatch was sent
by 125 Americans and told of the kill.
ing Of German named Nelson and
appealed to the state department for
Immediate protection. Lack of fur
ther dispatches from Nicaragua was
source Of anxiety.
A general Central American out
break as the result of the Nicaraguan
situation entered into the fears of the
department A belated dispatch from
Minister Weitzel refers to an "incur-
sion Of refugees of the late Zelayan
regime from Honduras into Nicarag-
ua." This was taken by the depart
ment to presage a widening of revo.
lutionary operations, which might be.
come general in Central America.
President Taft ordered the tenth
Infantry to proceed Immediately from
Panama and then rescinded his ~.
hour old order. From his private car
In the Rochester yards the president
wired to the acting secretary of war
to /: ecall the order. A sufficient force
OF marines, the president said, would
be in Managua, the Nicaraguan CAPT.
tai, and Corinto, its principal seaport,
early next week, to insure the safety
of American lives and property.
President Taft is determined that
the lives of Americans in Nicaragua
and the American legation in Mana
qua, its capital, shall be protected
from the revolutionaries under Gen
eral Mona.
Allegations Of conditions bordering
on barbarism, and acts even worse
than those which took the troops of
the united powers into China to quell
the Boxer rebellion, have been re.
ceived at the state department within
the last twenty-four hours.
Immediate Protection Necessary.
The deliberate murder of two Amer
leans, Dodd and Phillips, after they
had been wounded and were helpless,
following the massacre at Leon, Aug.
Aos AOOu50u dkISAllOu Iu0 previous
reports of burning of soldiers, starva.
. ton Of political prisoners held in dun.
geons, and other alleged acts of cru.
city.
The latest reports made plain that
Immediate protection for Americans
was necessary and that it probably
would not be safe to wait for the arri.
val of marines now en- route.
General Francisco Altschul, the rep.
resentative of the revolutionist junta
In Washington, denies the charges of
barbarity brought against the troops
fighting the Nicaraguan government
He alleges that the burning of bodies
of soldiers was necessary to proper
sanitation and that it applied alike to
members of both sides. He commended
also, that United States interests
would not have suffered if no attempt
had been made by American forces to
prevent the capture and operation by
the revolutionists of the railway be.
tween Managua and Corinto.
The United States is assured that
the landing of troops has the approval
of the Diaz government. The state de.
partment has proceeded upon the con.
viction that it's action involves no in.
fringement Of the war-making power
Of congress or of the president.