Show NICARAGUANS FACiNG FA FAMINE INE Rebels May Cut R n R Line Plague of Locusts Takes Crops MANAGUA Nicaragua Jan 1 By By The Associated Press Press- Press Continued Cont gathering of at Liberal forces and tho the threat of fighting I In the region In north north- northwest west west Nicaragua lire are leading to for tor the tho th food supply of oC the ti people Is very scarce Reports received here say aay that large groups of Liberal soldiers are aro gathering Fathering at Telli Telice and San Pedro to wait walt for tor arms rm from the tho gun run runner T Temporal which has haa reached the th Gulf Gult of It Fonzeca The fhe conservative government gov gov- government eminent BOV-eminent also declares that another gun runner Is en cn route rout from Mexico LOCUST PLAGUE PL There Ther Is grave gra danger dancer that the tho railroad Une will be b cut as soon as fighting breaks out at dega dea where It has haa ha been Impending for some som time lime As the th food tood supply of oC the th Interior Is scare scarce because of t the Inability to harvest the crops and as Q a a result of the th ray acc ages ces of ot locusts It Is feared fard that the population there will face faco famine and that Red ned Cross alJ will be b needed I IThe The Th conservative government Is understood to need arms badly d and although the th conservatives troops troop than the tb liberals they are aro ar completely outgunned out rho American embargo on arms I is still sUlI on won The Th government It was aa learned has hIlS been hit heavily financially hy by hythe bythe byth the present civil I warfare of tb necessity of maintaining largo large forces force of oC troops and money mon whIch ordinarily would gO to for public Improvements Is Isnow now being used for tal the th arm army Dr Juan Bacasa president of the tho Liberal government Is at Puerta Cabezas Cabesas where Amer Amer- AmerIcan Amerlean American ican lean marines marine have hav cst established Q a neutral zone JIo II Is I confident that t his forces force forc s control Nica- Nica Nicaragua |