| Show I I I i ZELAYA ISSUES HIS fillS STATEMENT Asserts That His Administration Has Been Unjustly Condemned By the United nite States CASE OF GROCE AND CANNON CA NO J Not Shot on cn Ills JUs Initiative He Slut sim simply ply II Refused to Extend Clear Clem ClemI Cleare Clem Clemency ency e C mey C to Them lem Managua Dec Dee 10 The United d dI States unjustly condemns my m administration adminis administration said President Zelaya In iii an Interview with n a staff correspondent of oC the Associated Press Press today toda I proposed to Secy of State Knox that ho he submit the case to Chein time he In I of a committee of his own I I choosing agreeing to surrender my rights to the tho presidency If charges In his letter to Isidore former Carmer Nicaraguan minister mh ister to the the United States were sustained Secy See Knox has not replied Defenseless against the hostility of ot ofa ota ofa a powerful nation n I must submit al ai although although though thou h I If have been booms condemned un unheard unheard unheard I heard Time Tho coercion of tho the United States m I will not to Its credit as a ana na nation tion whoso whose motives are questioned in all countries Tho The shooting of ot Groce and Cannon was proper Both were amenable to the laws of Nicaragua which distinctly authorize the shooting of individuals commanding rebels It is different If a person Is cap tures In the course courso of an international I I war tear The attempt of or Secy Seey Knox to establish the Inviolability of or Ameri Amerl Americans cans participating In foreign rela rel will result In constant revolutions lions led by immune Americana Americano The Initiative In iii the shooting s of at Groce and amI Cannon was not mine I simply refused to extend clemency clemen to them thorn after aCter a n mili military military tary tribunal had passed upon tho case cuse r President Zelaya then recited sev several several ov overal eral Instances ho declares of alleg alleged ed hostility against him In tho the United States through paid articles appear appearing appearIng appearing ing In American newspapers in one ono of ot these instances In he says sas he was wa endeavoring to raise a 0 loan In ht France when his persuaded the United States Stites to Interpose an objection tion Uon through h the French ambassador at Washington on the time pretext that the tho money mone sought Iou ht was ww intended for tho the purchase of war materials when In reality It was nas to have havo been used In Inthe Inthe inthe the construction of ot a railway I 1 am in negotiation with tho the rev rov revolutionists revolutionists to secure their endorse endorsement endorsement endorsement ment to a successor who will be ac acceptable to all parties and have sub submitted submitted the name namo of oC Jose JOlle Madriz Judge of tho the Cartage court I 1 hope this will obviate the tho necessity sity sit for American Intervention which would he be Intensely distasteful to all alli I am Informed that It Is the time Intention of or the tho United States to prevent my m leaving Nicara Nicaragua Nl Nicaragua gua I do not believe this Is true tr o oIt It Is reported that the tho revolutionists will reject Senor Madriz as M successor s and insist upon General Es Estrada Estrade f dl ll trade l assuming I the presidency ln I e d declaring declaring I ing that the United States has promis promised ed to furnish 2000 marines at Blue holds to bring about his success Time The hostility of oC the United States Zelaya Zelna Is due to the tho machinations of oC Senor Cabrera president president dent of Guatemala whom I refused In hi 1906 1900 to Join in an offensive and defensive alliance of Central Centra Amerl Ameri America en ca against n Mexico and thereby thwart thwarted ed his efforts to establish a virtual dictatorship In Central America Since then has pursued me mo with relentless enmity poisoning the public mind against me meI mer m mI I r am run preparing to refute the statement statement state statement ment o of or f Secy Sec Knox relative to tho the contemptuous treatment of American diplomats here hero by submitting to him hits hima a letter etter from John Gardiner Coolidge to Nicaragua expressing appreciation for Cor tho the cordial treatment given him |
