Evening star., 1926-12-27
D|Az N|CARAGUAN
ARMY WARNEDOUT
OF NEUTRAL ZONE
Latimer Informs Retreating
FederaIS BIuefieIdS Agree
ment Still Holds.
FAILS TO SEND WORD
ON PUERTO CABEZAS
Russian Agent Here Denies Soviet
Is Behind Mexico in Central
America.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Rear Admiral Latimer, who land
ed American bluejackets at Puerto
Cabezas, Nicaragua, and proclaimed
a neutral zone last week, advised the
State Department today that he had
notified Nicaraguan government
forces. recently defeated by Liberal
troops. that they would be disarmed
If they were forced into the Bluefields
neutral zone.
The Bluefields zone was established
last October by agreement of tpe two
Nicaraguan factions. The govern
ment troops, the admiral said, mao
retreated from Pearl Lagoon, where
they met defeat, to False Bluff and
El Bluff and might be driven into
the neutral zone by lack of food.
Government forces had sustained
losses at Pearl Lagoon, the message
said, and had left dead and wounded
on the field. Gen. Moncada. COM
manding the Liberal forces, has
granted the government commander
permission to send an unarmed force
TO bring in the bodies and the
wounded.
ARFceIkkcIht CbAu AAOAuS'
II was emphasized at the State De-
nartment that the Bluefield neutral
zone agreement was still in erect ana
that the military leaders of both sides
had intruSted to American naVat
forces the task of seeing tnat neutrai
ity was observed within the zone.
The department also asserted en-
phatically today that the United States
forces landed in Nicaragua are Tor
the sole purpose of protecting Ameri.
can citizens and not for the aid OF
any faction striving to maintain or
set up a government in the Central
American republic.
Assurance that this is the position
of the United States Government and
the State Department has been con-
veyed to Senator Bcrah OF Idaho,
chairman of the foreign relations COM
mittee.
While Senator Borah declined to dis
cuss the Nicaraguan situation for pub
hcation today, ii is understood that
as long as the United States forces
operate merely for the protection of
American citizens, and not to establish
q government in Nicaragua, 1t Is un-
likely the chairman of the foreign
relations committee will seek an In
vestigation by his COMMITTEES.
resolution calling upon the state
relating to the Nicaraguan situation,
introduced by Senator Moses OF New
Hampshire, Republican member OF
the foreign relations committee, be-
fore the Senate adjourned for the hoil-
days, is pending before the committee.
Likely to Be Adopted.
II Senator Moses presses for action,
1t probably will be adopted. In that
event the State Department viii be
in a position to state very clearly all
the facts in the case which have led
to the recognition by this Govern
ment of the Diaz government in Mica
ragua and the reasons for landing
American naval forces.
There was no additional word at
the State Department today as to the
situation at Puerto CabeZaS. state
Department records show that there
are from 900 to 100 American ma
tionals living in this area, the great
majority of them being employees of
American Lumber and other COM
panies.
Charges made by the agent in Mex
ico City of the Nigaraguan Liberal
faction that the landing OF naval
forces at Puerto CabeZas constituted
armed intervention in Nicaragpan
political affairs and was not in re
sponse to- any request for protection
of American citizens and their prop
erty were met at the State Depart
ment with the official reiteration that
such requests had been received.
For obvious reasons, it was added,
the State Departmnt was unwilling
to make public the names of the indi-
viduals or concerns which submitted
these requests, as that information
might prove to their disadvantage
in their dealings with Nicaraguan
factional authorities.
Vaca Without Word.
DIR. T. S. Vaca, representative here
of the SacaSa Liberals, has heard
nothing from Nicaragua since he was
informed by radio Friday that Amer
lean forces had landed at Puerto
Cabezas and that Sacasa and his fol-
lowers had been ordered to evacuate
the city.
Commenting on the statement of
Gen. Chamorro, a leader in the Diaz
faction, who is on his way to Europe
to act as its representative there, that
the Sacasa liberals were under the
influence of the Russian Soviet gov
ernment, Boris E. Skvirsky, director
of the Russian Information Bureau
here, said yesterday that there was
mot the least scintilla of truth" in
Gen. Chamorro is we'll aware that
there is no truth in it, said Skvirsky
land so must any one who is at all
familiar with the situation. The
Soviet government has no more in.
terest in factiOnal political squabbles
in Nicaragua than it has in the noun
tains of the moon. 1t has exerted,
or is eXerting, no more influence In
Nicaraguan politics than it eXerted re.
Gently in the election OF Mr.. VIII
Rogers as mayor of Beverly Hills,
Calf.
Calls Trade Only Interest.
"The Soviet government has one
interest and one interest only in the
American continent. That is to de-
velop its commercial relations with
the various countries, particularly
with the United States. 1t is doing
that despite considerable handicaps.
= During the past few years it has
become a habit of certain persons in
various parts of the world, to pro-
claim loudly, but without specifica-
tions, that the forces opposing them
are tools of Moscow. This custom
has been carried to such excesses that
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