Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-20 | Page 6 | Join Marines and Learn of Election Laws in Nicaragua

Join Marines and Le Learn rn of Election LavIs in m Nl Nicaragua aragua By RODNEY DUTCHER There WASHINGTON are about American marines in Nicaragua 1500 in China and In Haiti In Nicaragua they have Sandino more or less bottled up on a a. small area along the Coco river liver in Jinotega Jino- Jino tega which is the Honduran boundary boun- boun boundary dary and are confining their attempts at- at tempts to locate him to patrol work and aerial Scouting About troops are in permanent garrison garris n In Inthe inthe the Sandino area and about 1000 others are are near by in the three northern states of Jinotega Estel and Nueva Segovia Several hundred hun hun- dred more are guarding the Nicaraguan Nicaraguan Nica- Nica railroad linG line of communication tion between Corinto and Managua i Then theres there's a reserve force of Or at Leon ready for trouble trou- trou blo ble and with an eye on Chamorro in his the state ot of Chontal s. s More than 2000 are trained at Leon for the tree reo and fair election elec- elec tion this government has guaranteed in October when one o 0 two marines will be sent wherever there is a voting yoting booth S S S Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence S. S Willis a veteran of campaigns in San Domingo and the pine is headmaster ot of the election school His Ims pupils are studYing the election laws and Spanish with ith ape ape- dal cial concentration on election parlance par par- lance Summer weather in Nicaragua is not especially pleasant and neither i Is the life Ufe many of the marines are living in the more Isolated posts In the larger towns such as Managua and M Matagalpa there are Jre motion pIctures plc- plc tures which the marines patronize regularly re but during the rainy season season sea sea- son many of those in outlying sections see sec lions are even unable to obtain reading reading read read- ing matter There Ther are no Red Cross Crossi i or Y M. M C. C A. A workers In Nicara- Nicara II gsa gua to help buck up the marine morale Mosquitoes are baffled by mosquito mos mos- quito quite nets but the fleas are reported report report- ed to be worse vorse than the mosquitoes what with their ability to crawl through the nets In large numberS There is no in Nicaragua Nica- Nica but some of ef the distillations are pretty awful Officers have undertaken undertaken un- un to close up many saloons where bad liquor was likely to be besold besold sold to marines and have encouraged aged private clubs where enlisted men might drink beer to their hearts hearts' content S S S SNo No marriages with lovely Nicaraguan Nicara- Nicara guan senoritas are reported The marino marine corps frowns fro darkly on the Idea ot of an enlIsted man marrying on ibis 21 a Lieutenant Bernard Dubel Was recently married mar mar- ned ried but tire the bride was an Amerlan Amen Amerl- can an girl working Orkin with the NicaragUan Nicaraguan Nicara- Nicara gUan railroad President Diaz her in marriage The Nicaraguan people one hears har haise been increasingly increasingly in- in hospitable to the leather leather- necks The Th force In China has been halved There ere Were marines there Now Ow we have about at atthe atthe the international settlement in Shanghai and at They are all sitting tight and waiting for something to happen Insofar ns as the marines are concerned nothing has happened for some same time They drill and practice m marksmanship General Smedley Butler Commander commander com com- mander of the Chinese force is at S S S The marines in Haiti have perhaps perhaps per per- haps the softest assignment They are still there it is explained on account o at a year 10 agreement provides for American supervision super super- vision islon of customs and finances Co a gendarmerie Commanded an and instructed instructed in- in by marIne officers and guarantees of sovereignty with r free eo and fair elections Haiti appears to be running itself the marines say and is no thought of at revolution there Most of the remaining force is at Port Portau au Prince and the rest at Cape When not engaged in drillIng drilling drill drill- Ing or other duties they attend movies from froan the navy circuit at the post exchange e or go in for baseball polo or horseback riding