Marines Sent to Managua as Senate Committee Plans to Question Kellogg

A force of 160 sailors and marines from the U.S.S. Galveston landed at Corinto, Nicaragua, on Wednesday and began entraining for Managua to guard the American legation and protect American lives and property, the Associated Press reported. The State Department had announced that a marine guard was ordered to the capital.

The New Britain Herald said the department disclosed that British and Italian diplomatic representatives asked for outside protection for their nationals, and that Rear Admiral Latimer, commanding American forces in Nicaragua, would send the men. Observers took the decision, reached the day before, as an answer to rumors that the administration might withdraw its naval forces.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided after half an hour’s discussion to invite Secretary of State Kellogg to be questioned on American military activity in Nicaragua. Attendance was the largest in several years, and the committee also took up the applicability of the Monroe Doctrine, the Evening Star reported.