"Actually Assassinated"

"Actually Assassinated"

Last week the editor of the New York Times received from Nicaragua a cablegram distinctly of the letter-to-the-Times type. Excerpt:

"I do not desire to see more American Marines killed and to witness the sending of their bodies to the United States. Ambuscades similar to the one at Las Cruces, where the Marines were recently killed, result in loss of prestige for the United States and even more for Nicaragua. . .

"I have experienced and feel a profound sadness for the Marines who perished in the last ambuscade of the Sandinistas. They fell in a land with which they were unfamiliar. Indeed, they were actually assassinated and did not succumb in a real and honest fight.

"We have pledged our determination and our hearts blood to avoid similar fatalities, and we desire a change of tactical policy that will result in meeting the bandits in actual mountain warfare and opposing them with the same methods as they themselves use.

"J. M. MONCADA,

"President of Nicaragua."

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