Show CRUELTIES PRACTICED BY NICARAGUANS WASHINGTON May Ita 2 A A A letter written writ Tit ten tan to the American consul at Managua Nicaragua b by Narciso Arellanes a 1 citizen citizen citizen citi citi- zen of Nicaragua detailing incidents Incident of cruelties In that republic has been forwarded forwarded for for- warded here to Senor Cae Castrillo trillo representative representative lIen of ot tho the Estrada forces In Wash Wash- In ington ton In his letter Mr Arellanes says I 1 think It best you OU should know these people are at their old work again They are aro torturing men and oven boys at and at Granada whipping them suspending them from the tho thumbs with cords cords all all this to wrench out confessions confessions confessions confes confes- from them as to who c carried provisIon provision provision pro pro- vision to Calixto Tala guerillas be beyond beyond be be- yond I 1 will cite as an example tho the case CaBO of Octavia a young man owning a a. ranch a low fow miles from l who was given en lashes with sUcks sticks at midnight on tho or April at the theall jail all at Branada He lie Is now In the penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary pen pen- of ot this town Managua and andas andas andas as It is a matter of ot common knowledge you must have heard the story tory from another another another an an- other source Thc They have o also burned property and wrought damage to Incalculable de degree but this we wo pass lightly out of mind It ItIs Itis Is 18 the tho rest I lay stress on I am ashamed that such cruelties should be bo committed by men profess to be Christians and are such Nicaraguans such fe ferocity Ic- Ic e- e rocity Is m tho work of or fiends than human being We c wIsh e state department and the American J public to to be acquainted with the these e facts acts as as It might h help lp matters matters mat nat a bit It is a real shame shamo that such work Is going on with your our warships a f few miles oft off CorInto harbor when just a a. word from Admiral Kimball would stop this devils devil's work ork Should the ad admiral admiral ad- ad miral mural send another r mission to Investigate Investigate investigate gate he ho would ouM disclose a situation of ot things unparalleled even In the Congo Free Freo State Under date dato of April 10 10 from Managua 1 a subsequent note not to the Am American consul consul consul con con- sul at Managua lan gua from Arellanes states that th the author has received reliable In Information Information information In- In formation o of s seventeen enteen cases In which m men n n have o been hung hunK up by the thumbs lI Ho lIe gives the names of ot f seventeen victim victims vic vie time tim and the name namo of one man men who was shot and two who were lashed Another document nt detailing those al alleged alleged alleged al- al cruelties and mentioning specific Instances of ot Insults to women by of officers of- of alleging in one case cae that a woman was shot because she resisted a government government government govern govern- ment officer r who tried to kiss her has been submitted to the state department b by Senor C |