Defy!

From the mountainous central wilds of Neuva Segovia, Nicaragua, the insurgent General Augusto Sandino hurled defiance, last week, at the U. S. Marines who are seeking to exterminate his forces (see below). In a proclamation smuggled to Mexico City and there released General Sandino cries:

"I will not abandon my resistance until the . . . pirate invaders . . . assassins of weak peoples . . " are expelled from my country. ... I will make them realize that their crimes will cost them dear. . . . There will be bloody combat. . . .

"Nicaragua shall not be the patrimony of Imperialists. I will fight for my cause as long as my heart beats. ... If through destiny I should lose, there are in my arsenal five tons of dynamite which I will explode with my own hand. The noise of the cataclysm will be heard 250 miles. All who hear will be witness that Sandino is dead. Let it not be permitted that the hands of traitors or invaders shall profane his remains."