The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-27
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
President Goes to Cuba and
American Marines Bomb
Nicaraguans.
BY EDWARD w. PtcKARD


I DREsIDENT COOLIDGE left Wash
ington Friday by. train for Key
West, Fla, where he boarded the bat
tleship Texas and steamed across to
/. Havana, Cuba, thus leaving the United
States for the first time in his incum-
bency Of the Presidential office. With
him were Mrs. Coolidge and the dis
tinguished gentlemen comprising the
American delegation to the Pan
American congress. 1t was to partici
pate in the opening Of that assem-
blage that Mr.. Coolidge made the
journey, and his stay on the island
was to be brief. ,.s.
There were unmistakable signs that
the leadership of the United States in
the affairs of the continent was to. be
contested by the delegations Of some
of the Latin American nations. this
beingps precipitateds4 by, resentment
against American Intervention in Mic
aragua. In order that the President
and his delegation might not be en-
harrassed by criticism at home, the
se.sate committee on foreign relations,
decidedste postpone Its Investigation
OF the Nicaraguani situation until af-
ter his return. Such an inquiry was.
called for by resolution introduced
by Senator Wheeler of Montana and
a majority of the committee seemed
to favor it but deferred action for the
es0n cfo sr,c<
course In Nicaragua have. been rather
frequent, the latest being in the form
of a cablegram to President Coolidge
from the editors Of papers in Begota,
Colombia.
Meanwhile American marines nunh
herring 1000 We're being hurried dow1
TO Nicaragua from both the Atlantic
and the Pacific stations and General
Lejease, commander of the corps, also
went down there to look over the sit
uatien. The announced intention to
break up the rebel band led by Cen
eral SANDING and give the country
complete peace has not been altered.
The Bandits, who are said to be
trained by a former German officer
named Muller, are active and enter
prising and have made several at
tempts to ambush detachments of ma
rines. In one instance, at Somotillo.
a number of native troops deserted
their allies and helped the rebels in
an attack on a patrol commanded by
Capt. Paul w. Payne of the marines.
Outiumbered. Payne retreated to
Villa Nueya. obtained reinforcements
and returned to Somotilla. but was
again driven off. A larger body of
troops was rushed there from Gilman
had fed to the mountains. Lieut.. r.
G.. Schflt. marine aviator, discovered
abcat 200 bandits lying in ambush
awaiting a column of. marines which
was marching from Quilali to FIGARO
With bombs and machine gun the
lieutenant put the band TO rout, killing
fourteen and wounding others. Bombs
dropped from another marine plane
north of Quilali killed nine rebels,
breaking up concentration.
G ENATOR DAVID A. REEDS COM
~ mittee that has been investigating
the alleged Mexican documents that
were published in the Hearst papers
made IA partial report in which were
these findings:
I. There is not scintilla of evil
dencc that any United States senator
has accepted. or was promised, or was
offered. directly or indirectly, any
money lor other valuable thing. by any
officer or representative of the gov
ernincnt Of Mexico.
,. The pretended document show
ing that SLo15,O00 was, Withdrawn
from the Mexican treasury and sent
to the Mexican consul general in New
York To be paid to United States sem
ators, is not genuine, but is spurious
and Fraudulent, and. in so far as 1t
purports to be signed by the Presi-
dent of Mexico or the secretary of the
treasury Of Mexico. it is forged,
The committee said it had not yet
been able to determine the identity of
the manufacturer of the spurious doc
uments. Senator Reed told the SEN