NICARAGUA: Defy!

From the mountainous central wilds of Neuva Segovia, Nicaragua, the insurgent General Augusto Sandino hurled defiance, last week, at the U. S. Marines who are seeking to exterminate his forces (see below). In a proclamation smuggled to Mexico City and there released General Sandino cries:

"I will not abandon my resistance until the . . . pirate invaders . . . assassins of weak peoples . . " are expelled from my country. ... I will make them realize that their crimes will cost them dear. . . . There will be bloody combat. . . .

"Nicaragua shall not be the...

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