NICARAGUAN REBELS.
CAPITAL BOMBARDED. MUCH FIRING BUT LITTLE DAMAGE. [INDEPENDENT PRESS 'CABLE.] NEW YORK, Aug. 13. The Nicaraguan rebel forces under General Mona, the lately deposed Secretary for War, have begun the bombardment of Managua, the capital. It was a long time, however, before tlie artillerv could find the range, all their shells'for the first few hours falling short of the city. Realising rather slowly that they were wasting a lot of good ammunition,*the rebels eventually advanced with their guns, and it was not long then before shrapnel began to burst over the city. Many women and children were wounded, but on the whole not much damage was done. The revolutionaries made a fierce attack on the penitentiary, but were driven back. They then transferred their operations to the eastern side of the city, but fared no better there, the Government troops promptly repelling the attack.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3614, 29 August 1912, Page 5
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146NICARAGUAN REBELS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3614, 29 August 1912, Page 5
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