The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-09

tratMmen Colonel :. IA Pendleton
twas In command with IteMteuAnt
Colonel Long and Major Butler I'M
| der him 81 \
Of so 900 peo1Ie-. Here the reyolal-
tIontsts got their drst taste Of Yam
kee fghting- They met the inconn-
ing train and started q battle. The
I.Amertcans had machine gums
Inaounted onsSthe front OF the etrain
and they moved thair way into
Leon with tlaerI Revo1utionists
were killed By. the score. So deadly
was the IRE E0f the Yankee guns
Ethat the men took ito their heels.
At Afasaya Major Butler walked
1.-THE streets Si1aaeeompanied. "A re-
Iyo1utionist ran out and wildly ban
ished a revolver in front Of him
Major Butler took 1t awayTfrom him,
broke IT. threw ont the cara fGt5
and gaveit back to him, telling him
to behave himseR The revoiu-
tionists approached an encampment
OF marines and asked them to move
to another point. as the town vas
Ito be attacked from this side
go ahead :, said the American
officer. Just fire over our heads.
We Will be asleep"
The attack was not made.
1t was at Cayotope Hill that th9
most desperate fighting occurred and
at which point half e dozen Amer
leans lost their lives. This was q
fortress held by the reyolutionists
| said there was noSchance 1ofs capture
for, they said, 1t had never been
taken. Yet at daybreak one morn
ing q. ring OF marines and sailors
crept high up the hillside and were
under the very guns of the enemy
when discovered. They charged the
breastw orKsa sturmed them and turn
| ed their guns 5on the fleeing revolu-
tionists.
Submitted without Fight.
The trains were run into Manage
and Granda. There the marine off,
GERS called upon the revolusiDnists
and told them that they might sub.
nit peacefully or all be killed, aa
the whole United States government
was back OF the expedition. The re-
ports or the deadliness OF the ma
chine gums and the accuracy with
which these young No i shot hsd
preceded them. Tine revolutionis
in their strongholds submitted;
without fight.
Americans were no more popular
here than elsewhere in Latin Ann
erica. The tgovernment.o of lplicaragua
however. saw great light. It had
fought to come into being and mad
been steadily lighting to maintain
itself. Might not an acquiescence no
the presence OF ithe troops from the
great nation to the north aid It I'm
remaining in power. Juan Estrada;
and Ado1fo Diaz believed 1t would.
They welcomed the americans, and
invited the government TO station a
permanent force at the capital. Man
aqua. 1t should be called a legation
guard. Had not Picking such a
guard? Why should not Mahgua2
All this happened nearly three;
years ago. Today the legation guard
amounts to but 100 nen. 1t is UNI
der the command of Captain Pres
who was President McKin1eyis ply
sician. At Corinto on the coast lies
the cruiser Anpapol5s, with $50 ad-
ditional marines aboard. Not Va for
mfdable force to guide the destines
OF nation OF half a million peo-
pie.
But Nicaragua has come to un-
derstand the American guard. It
credits the United States with being
action of this government in Cuba
as establishing a precedent. It be-
Heves. at least outwardlys that the
United States desires only to serve
Nicaragua. 1t may be that Adolfo
Diaz and his associates merely ac-
cept the American protectorate as a
condition Offering less danger than
would its abesnce.
Represent Big Nation.
AT any rate the marines have been
taken to the bosom OF Nicaragua.
They are given most comfortable
quarters. They participate In all
cereu cniesS They are asked, by the
government, to advise 1t as to the
creation OF a native guard. They