The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-23
MORE MARINES
 FOR NICARAGUA
UNITED STATES WILL SEND REIN. FoRcEMENTS TO SCENE OF
 DISTURBANCE
Will Protect American Citizens and interests With any Force
 Necessary.

Washington, Aug. 22.-The state department is determined to extend the fullest possible measure of pro- lection to American life and property | in Nicaragua It was announced to- day if the naval forces now in that country, even when heavily reinforced by the large marine contingent now being assembled at League Island and the several hundred blue jackets en route to Corinto, are sufficient to assure that protection, additional forces will be rushed forward. The state department still is un- moved by utterances in congress, re- | lying implicitly and confidently upon the long line of precedents, where American military and naval forces have been employed without congress sional direction in cases where Amer ican life and property were in ieop- ardy.
 lOlncials declare that that is the sole purpose of the landing of the fighting force in Nicaragua.
 II has not been found necessary to send any special instructions to American Minister Weitzel or to Cap l tain Terhune of the Annapolis. When the endorsements, which will be en route to Nicaragua before the end of the week, have arrived at their distination, the navy will have ashore in that country the most num- erous force it ever has landed in an American republic in time of peace. Admiral Southerland. who will com mand the combined force upon his arr rival at Corinto on his flagship Cali fornia, has the unlimited confidence of the state department, based upon the manner in which he handled the revolutionary uprising in Santo Do- mingo about five years ago.
 government officials do not admit that the bombardment of an unpro tected town, filled with non- combat ants, with many resident Americans, and with substantial business inter- ests within it's limits, constitutes war fare in the modern civilized sense. If the conflicting factions wish to fight, the American naval commanders will not attempt to prevent them, but they must choose other grounds than the limits of a defenseless town with large American interests.
 There is a well grounded suspicion that the liberals. who have joined secretary of war, in his revolt against the conservative Diaz government are in the majority at this time. Il that be the case, the United States lauthorities would make no objection tn their assuming control of the gov. Iernment, but it is declared that, jus as in the case of Panama, no military
 dictatorship will be permitted and tho
 next president of Nicaragua must be
 a man chosen by majority of ln'
 people by free and fair ballot.
 The marines now being assembled
 at Philadelphia for transportation or
 the Prairie to Colon and thence bl
 rail and wated to Corinto, are beins
 drawn from the navy yards at Boston
 New York Philadelphia, Washington
 Norfolk and Charleston, S. C., and vii
 sa4. from League Islard Saturda.
 night.
 The reported killing of the twt
 Americans Dodd and Phillips, in Nie
 aragua, is being thoroughly inyesti
 gated. Dodd, the Mississippian, wht
 was slain, was well known to Repre-
 sentative Sisson of Mississippi, wh'
 said tonight that both Dodd and hi
 father were lawyers in his congres
 sonal district.
 "The situation in Nicaragua is SC
 rious and critical" said Representa-
 tive Sulzer, chairman of the bous.
 foreign affairs committee, tonight
 The massacre in Nicaragua o
 Americans and native citizens is on,
 of the greatest tragedies in Centra
 American history l am in commu lnication with the state departmen
 and know that everything is beini
 done by this government to Drotec
 life and property there"