NICARAGUAN REVOLT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10303, 12 January 1927, Page 5

NICARAGUAN REVOLT

AMERICA’S POLICY

SPECIAL MESSAGE BY COOLIBGE

APPARENT GUN-RUNNING BY MEXICANS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.

President Coolidge, in a special message explaining the United States Nicaragua policy to declared the war munitions supplied to the Sacasa revolutionists bore evidence of having belonged to the Mexican Government.

The President added that gunrunners had apparently fitted out Mexico with the encouragement of Mexican officials.

President Coolidge’s message continued: ‘‘Boats carrying these munitions were fitted out at Mexican ports, and some bear evidence of having belonged to .the Mexican Government.”

The message recalled that when the United States asked the co-opera-tion, of other States in an embargo on the shipment of amis to Nicaragua Mexico did not respond, “butinformed the American Ambassador in Mexico City that in the absence of manufacturing plants in Mexico for the making of arms and ammunition tho matter had little ‘practical importance.”—A. and N.Z.C.A.

TWO NEUTRAL ZONES

BUSINESS PARALYSED.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10

Announcing the establishment of two neutral zones in Nicaragua, the State Department said: “The report rrom Admiral Latimer states that business along the second Ido river has been paralysed. Property lias been seized, and conditions are becoming serious as far as American lives are concerned.”—A. and N.Z. C.A.