Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-08-28

Washington, ID. C., Aug. 2o-l he
war department today issued orders
to the Tenth United States infantry
at Panama to proceed Immediately TO
Nicaragua. The orders came direct
from President Taft himself at BeV-
erley. The men will embark tomorrow
on merchant steamers and Will arrive
at Corinto within 4S hours.
American soldiers will be landed in
Nicaragua within the next As hours.
On reports of conditions said to be
so serious as to justify their gelng
Kept secret in Washington, President
Taft at Beverley today personally di
rected the immediate movement OF
the Tenth United States infantry, now
on the Panama canal zone to Nicara-
qua, to guard American lives and
property. Dispatches of last night
and early today pictured the situa,
tion as being so acute that an imme-
diate movement of a large force OF
troops was necessary.
Allegations of conditions bordering
on barbarism and acts ever worse
than those which took the troops OF
the United States into China to quell
the Boxer rebellion have been receiv-
ed at the state department within the
last "a hours The deliberate muir
der of two Americans, Dodd and
Phillips, after they had been wound
ed and were helpless following the
massacre at Leon on August 10,
focused attention on the previous re-
ports of burning of soldiers, starva'
ton of political prisoners held in
dungeons and other alleged 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 the marines now en- route.
General Francisco Altschul, of the
fevolutionists in Washington. denies
the charge of barbarity brought
against the troops fighting the Nicar
aguan government. He alleged that
the burning of bodies of soldiers was
necessary to proper sanitation and
sides. He contended also that Ameri
can interests would not have suffered
If no attempt had been made by
American forces to prevent capture
n h1rt t1,n N1,,ti of
the railway between Managua and
Corinto.
The Junta asserts that the railroad
is national institution and should
not be classed as an American prop.
erty, except as it being administered
to secure a loan by New York bank.
ers.
Reports that women We're shot are
condemned emphatically by General
Altschul who says that the barbarous
methods were employed by the gov.
eminent forces when women were
sent to the lines as ammunition car
riers. Rebels firing upon flags OF
truce borne by loyal Nicaraguan
troops as well as American marines
is said, however, to have been fre
quent within the last few days. New
attacks upon women and children and
other non-combatants are reported
In the rebel shelling of Managua dur
ing the first days of the revolution
American Minister Weitzel reported
that the firing had been indiscriminate
upon the section of the city occupied
by the non-combatants and that an
American collector of customs named
Ham and several other Americans
narrowly escaped injury from burst
ing shells. The United States is as
sured that the landing of troops has
the approval of the Diaz government
Following further demand by Min
lister Weitzel that Americans and
their property must be protected by
the Nicaraguan government is under
stood to have confessed it's inability
to meet the situation and to have
consented frankly to permit the land
ing of American troops to protect
United States citizens.
The state department has proceeded
upon the conviction that it's action in
wolves no infringement of the wal
making powers of congress or the
president.
Officials point to the fact thai
there is even now a whole regimen,
OF United States infantry engaged in
policing the Chinese railroad from
Chin Wang Pao to Pekin.
And, of course, American troops
have been freely employed in China
1t is true that each of these cases
there warrant by treaty for the EN-
ployment of American soldiers, but
the state department officials felt thai
a like obligation has been imposed
upon the United States by the Daw
son agreement, which terminated the
Zelaya rebellion.
Aside from any question of treaty
organization, the administration /!
said to be satisfied of it's rights un
der the principles of international Law
to employ any part of the army ant