The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-18
MENA'S SON ON THE N|CARAGUAN REVOLT Says Gross Injustice Was
 Done Rebels OFFICERS INDIGNANT Declares Officers of American Ma rines Openly Voiced Their Sympa-
 thy for Mena-The General
 May Come to the U. s.

New Orleans December 17.-Coonel Daniel Mena, son of General Luis Mena, the leader of the recent revolution in Nicaragua arrived in New Orleans today from Panama. where he has been held prisoner by the United States military authorities in the Basobispo fortress for the past several weeks
 His father is still held by the United States authorities as a prisoner in the American hospital at Ancon on the Pana- ma canal zone. Although his father is unable to walk he says a military guard remains in his room at the hospital con stantly.
 "The American people have not the faintest idea of the gross injustices that were perpetrated in Nicaragua in the name of the American government during the recent popular uprising" said Colonel Mena-
 Officers Indignant
 "Onficers of the United States marines expressed sympathy for our cause, which they recognized as being representative of the popular will of the Nicaraguan peo- pie and were indignant when they re- ceived superior orders from Washington to operate against us. Pledges of neu- trality given in an official note signed by Major Butler of the marine corps on September 23 were violated three days later, when Admiral Southerland, acting under orders from Washington, called upon the leaders of the revolution to dls- arm their troops and surrender all muni- tions of war to the United States authori- ties"
 These orders, he said, were reluctantly enforced by the officers of the marine corps at Grenada, several of whom pri- vately apologized for the misrepresenta- tions which they had been forced to make.
 Some of these officers of the ma rine." said Colonel Mena, 'openly re- marked that in Mexico, where Americans were killed almost every day and where American property was constantly being destroyed. there was need for American Intervention, but that their action in our case was positively unjustihable."
 Mena Denied Habeas Corpus
 The supreme court of the canal zone, he said, recently denied writ of habeas corpus asked for by General Luis Mena and handed down an opinion in which the word of President Taft was declared to be supreme in such cases in the zone.
 Colonel Mena declared that although the Nicaraguan revolution was put down by the active employment of force of more than 2.300 American marines, in order to sustain the Knox policy, it has been found necessary 10 maintain even to the present day, a force of several hundred American soldiers in the capital at Ma nagua to protect President Daz from his own people
 "rhese soldiers are actually employed as d body guard for President Diaz," said Colonel Mena, "and this fact should be accepted as convincing proof of our sertion that Secretary Knox has sacrificed the lives of American marines in order to maintain in power a man who is dis credited and dishonored by the citizens of that republic"
 Colonel Mena declared that if the auto cratic opinion" of the canal zone can be overruled. his father will come to the United States and give testimony before the Senate committee, which is invest- sating the Nicaraguan affairs.