Washington, Jan. 9.
With Major-General Lejeune, Commandant of the United. States Marine Corps, and General Feland, who will conimand the expedition, 800 men. sailed from Charleston fo Nicaragua to-day on board the cruisers Trenton, Raleigh and Milwaukee, while 492 officers and men embarked at San Diego and another 450 embarked at Norfolk on the mine-sweeper Oglala—Reuter, have five tons of dynamite in which will be exploded by my own hands if I lose the fight. Then all will know that Sandino is Serious Situation Arising on the Honduran Frontier New York, Jan, 10. vaitten by the insurgent General Augustine Sandino is taken to indicate that he will fight to the last, The newspapers describe him as the "Nicaraguan Dewo; Washington, Jan, 6, The efforts of some quarters to glorify Sandino into a sort of Con tral American Garibaldi have inwensed President Coolidge, who is preparing a statement setting forth the reasons for the presence of the American Marines in Nicaragua, to counteract what the Administration considers misguided newspaper comment, Major-General Tejeune, com: mandant of the Marine Corps is sailing for Nicaragua, on Jat ary on a mission of inspection.
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