Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-28
War Department Or
ders Tenth Infantry
to Proceed at Once
to Rebellion.
STORIES OF BARBARISM
LEAD TO GRAVE FEARS
American Soldiers Will Reach
Scene in 48 Hours-Diaz
Government Approves inter-
ference-Admits Weakness.

WASHINGTON Aug. 2s.-American
soldiers will be landed in Nicaragua
within the next forty-eight hours.
On advices cf conditions said 70
be so serious as to justify not be-
ing made public in Washington. Presi-
dent Taft from Beverly today per-
sonally directed the immediate mope-
ment of the Tenth United States In
fantry, now on the Panama canal
zone. to Nicaragua to guard Amers-
can lives and property.
United States marines now being
rushed south on the transport Prairie.
via Colon. and the cruiser California
cannot reach Nicaragua for possibly
week Dispatches of last night and
early today pictured the situation a.
being so acute that an Immediate
movement of large force of troops
was necessary.
Full War Equipment.
The Tenth, recruited to fun war
strength and fully equipped for cam
paigning in the tropics. is 70 be taken
aboard merchant ships In the harbor
of Panama and rushed TO Corinfo.
They will be dispatched along this
line OF the railway from Corinto 10
Managua, the capital. at points ~hers
American Minister Weftzel and COM
mander Terhune. of the gunboat AM
napolis. believe they will afford most
protection. Colonel Henry A. Greene
commands the regiment
Allegations of conditions borucrinx
on barbar.sn and acts even wore<
than those which took the troopt
of the united powers into China 70
received at the state tleparfnient
! within the last twenty -four hours.
The deliberate murder of tive Amer
j leans Dodd and Phillips. after they
had been wounded and were helpless
following the massacre at Leon Cd
4 August l9, focused attention on the
previous reports of burning Of SOL
diers. starvation of political pris-
oners held in dungeons and other al
legged acts of cruelty.
The latest reports made plain that
immediate protection for Americans
was necessary and that it probably
would not be safe TO wait for the ar.
rival of marines now en- route. The
marines on the Prairie, after being
landed at Colon, viii have to be trans
ported across the isthmus by railroad
and taken on the cruiser California.
on the Pacific side, for transportation
to Corinto That would mean a delay
of at least week The Tenth In
fantry can be on the ground in less
than two days.
Denies Barbarity Cha-ge.
General Francisco Altschul, the rep
resentative of the revolutionisf iunta
in Washington, denies the charges of
barbarfty brought against troops
fighting the Nicaraguan government
He alleges that the burning of the
bodies of soldiers was necessary to
proper sanitation and that it applied
alike TO dead of both sides. He con-
tends. also. that American 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
between Managua and Corinto.
The junta asserts that the railroad
is a national institution and should
not be classed as American property.
except as it is being administered by
Americans to secure a loan by New
York bankers.
Reports that women we're shot are
condemned emphatically by General
Altschul who says that the barbar-
Gus methods were employed by the
government forces when women were
sent to the lines as ammunition car
riers.
Fire on Flags Of True.
Rebels firing upon flags of truce
borne by loyal Nicaraguah troops. a.
well = American marines Is said %
have been frequent within the la<t
few DAYS New attacks upon women
! and children and other non-eombat-
! ants are reported
In the rebel shelling of Managua
during the first DAYS of the revo-
, luton American Minister Weitzei re-
, ported that the firing had been in
! discriminate upon the section Of the
city occupied by the non -combatants
, and that an American collector 81
! customs. named Ham. and several
other Americans narrowly escaped IA.
Jury by bursting shells
Il The United States is assured thai
the landing of troops has the ar-
provaI of the Diaz government Fol-
a lowing a further demand by Minis.
ter weitzel upon instructions OF the
State Department that Americans
and their property must be protected
from the rebels, the Nicaraguaf GOV
ernrnent is understood TO have con-
fessed it's inability adequately to mee'
the situation and frankly 10 batE
consented TO permit the United States
to land its own troops to protect il=
| citizens.
k The state department has proeer,ie<
: upon the conviction that its actl9z
e involves no infringement Of the wa
. making power of Congress or tfr
: President
Government Satisfied with Right.
OfhciaIs point TO the fact That lhe1'
is even now whole regiment s
United States infantry engaged i
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