Six thousand two hundred rifles, 272 machine guns, and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition were surrendered last week to the U. S. forces in Nicaragua by the Liberal and Conservative armies, heretofore engaged in a civil war (TIME, May 17, 1926, et seq.). Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, personal representative of President Coolidge, supervised this operation, cabled: "The civil war in Nicaragua is now definitely ended."
Next morning, at 1 a. m., a band of about 300 Liberal soldiers, not yet disarmed, offered resistance in the hamlet of La Paz Centro to a...
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