Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — SOLDIERS NEAR FRONTIER [ARTICLE]

SOLDIERS NEAR FRONTIER

Nicaragua Protests Military Activity Is for Defense Only. Nicaragua, through her minister at Washington, Senor Espinoza, has protested to Secretary Knox that the military and naval activity now In progress in that country is destined entirely for defensive purposes. Notwithstanding the minister’s assertion, the administration has decided to augment the naval force in Central American waters to a total of six vessels. The most significant news that reached the state department was that about six thousand Nicaraguan troops are near the Honduran frontier, the chief scene of activity being in the neighborhood of Corinto, where are also concentrated four gunboats and other auxiliary craft.