1 September 1927.  Sandino to General Manuel Echevarria.

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2 September 1927.  Sandino to Andres Largaespada.

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ca.  2 September 1927.  Unknown author, fragment.

 

27.09.02 unknown unknown   The zone is composed of four sectors:  1st Pueblo Nuevo and places adjacent; 2nd Somoto; 3rd Quilali; 4th Ocotal; Headquarters:  Chipote  [line across the page]    1st.  To promise to acknowledge as Supreme Chief of the Defenders of the National Right, who incarnate the principles of Nicaraguan Liberalism, the General A.C. Sandino  (blurred)    [Engl only.  nd.  HOL.  43A/29]

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15 September 1927.  Guadalupe Rivera to Sandino.

 

27.09.15 Rivera, Guadalupe Sandino   Santa Cruz.  [date]    General --------.    Yesterday the machos left for Guasaneras with 20 machos and five countrymen.  They have two Thompsons, six cargos of provisions and plenty of ammunition.  They entered by Los Cedros.  I know this from a reliable source and news tonight from V. Chavarria.  In case you want to blow up their entrance you should do it by the same road they take.    /s/     I suppose our people of La Virna have been intercepted, but have they?  The Gringo Machos have taken Saco and Valentinez.  Everybody is against them.    [Engl only.  HOL.  43A/29]

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15 September 1927.  Sandino to General Manuel Echevarria.

 

27.09.15 Sandino Echevarria, Manuel   General Echevarria:    Today I am sending two patrols, one to Telpaneca and the other to bring rifles from Murra.  Estrada is taking  the letter for the Mexican Consul and in Telpaneca he will look for someone to take it.  It is certain that the Machos will know of these patrols and for that reason it is good to redouble vigilance in this camp so as not to be the victim of surprises.  I confide in you to make the boys awake rigorously in their positions and be ready from 4:30.    /s/    [Engl only.  nd.  Possibly planning of Telpaneca attack of 27.09.19.   HOL.   43A/29]

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19 September 1927.  Unknown Author, Diary of Events.

 

27.09.19 unknown Diary   [Anonymous diary of events:]    I enlisted in the ranks of General Carlos Salgado on the 28th of August 1927.  We left the camp at Zapote the 30th of the present.  We reached Telpaneca on the 31st of same.  The 1st of September a patrol of the Salgado forces left and met the enemy and there was a battle at the point called Carbonal.  The 2nd there was another battle at the point Apamiguel with the constabulary and the Machos where four Yankees and soldiers of the country died of the enemy, and there also died three Liberals and two wounded of the patrol commanded by Major Lobo.  We entered San Juan de Segovia the 3rd of September 1927.  We left San Juan the 15th.  We reached a point called Zapotillal, and we left the 8th of September and arrived at Santa Ana on the 7th of September.  General Salgado had an interview with General Sandino.  The 9th we went to Chipote divided in three columns.  The 11th the cavalry of 100 men went out at the command of Colonels Sanchez and Colindres to fight the enemy at the town of Telpaneca.  The 13th the larger force left for Telpaneca to help in the same attack.    [Engl only.  nd.  HOL.  43A/29]

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24 September 1927 [a].  Sandino to Froylan Turcios (Unfinished).

 

27.09.24  [a] Sandino Turcios, Froylan   El Chipote, [date].    Senor Don -----, Tegucigalpa.     Dear Friend:    No one better than you, can be the faithful representative of our sacred rights interpreted by your sane intellect and by your great love for your homeland and race, which you have proven since you defend us with all the enthusiasm and virility of your pen.  The glory in which you are placed no one can take away because your teachings of love of the homeland, expressed in the verbs of your intellect, fructify the heart of modern youth avid for liberty and national independence.  What a coincidence, before you knew me for my attitude and ideas, I felt predilections and affection for you, because everything your pen produces emanating from your intellect caused me enthusiasm, I felt every bit a man, and when I consolidate them in the national conscience with the blood of the invading pirates serving the Central American youth as a liberating prologue and to prove to the civilized world that the right of the weak is much more sacred than that of the strong, and if this one because of its greatness should disclaim it, it should be sealed with blood to punish their stupidity.  In such a virtue I give you ample . . .   [unfinished.  English only.  HOL.  Filed w/ 27.12.06.  43A/29]

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24 September 1927 [b].  Sandino to Froylan Turcios.

 

27.09.24  [b] Sandino Turcios, Froylan   El Chipote [date].    Senor Don ------, Tegucigalpa.    Dear Friend:    Mr. Juan J. Colindres is the special envoy who takes personal correspondence to you.  I have the honor to present him to you so that he may be identified personally by you and to exchange impressions with him according to instructions that said envoy carries.  I do not doubt that knowing humble persons as you do, you will know how to apreciate the abnegation of this man in carrying out such a delicate mission.  This man can stay there as long as you think convenient.  My desire, my dear friend, is to justify to the civilized world that my attitude does not affect any governments of our sister Republics and for that reason they should shelter no disconfidence.  Assuming responsibility for my acts before the Homeland, impartial history can examine closely and will define them as it deems appropriate.  Once more you can be convinced of my great love for the Homeland and the desire to see it free, the same as the faith in God will animate my army and myself to continue fighting against the invaders of my country until I punish them bloodily or throw them out of our territory.    Thanking you in advance, I remain as always at your orders,    Affectionate Friend    /s/     [Engl only.  HOL.  43A/29]

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2 October 1927.  Sandino to General Manuel Echevarria.

 

27.10.02 Sandino Echevarria, Manuel    General Camp of the Defenders of the Natural Right.    General ------:    For some time I have been hearing mentioned as one of our socialists the Dr. Lara of Leon and from what I have read of him it seems to me that he could be one candidate.  I also believe that they suggested Carlos Castro Wasmer for candidate to the vice-presidency of Moncada, and I believe that he could be accepted as such.  I believe it would be effective if we should proclaim them thus:  for president of the Republic of Nicaragua, Dr. Escolastico Lara, and for Vice-President, Carlos Castro Wasmer, so if you have not much to do, I will come tomorrow and we will discuss the matter.    Patria y Libertad    /s/    We could also name Sofonias Salvatierra for vice-president.    [Engl only.  HOL.  43A/29]

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8 October 1927.  Sandino.  Manifesto  (Sent to General Echevarria).

 

27.10.08 Sandino Manifesto (to General Echevarria)   The arms of the revolution on this memorable date have covered themselves with glory.  The adventurous pirates once more have bitten the dust in our aggressive mountains, because our powerful con-cons and excellent marksmanship of our excellent riflemen will let the civilized world know the cause which is defended with sacred justice and legitimate right, omnipotent God will fight our cause and conduce us toward success.    Once more the cowardly punitives who in the air make motions of greatness because they have the advantage that in the airplanes they pilot they assassinate cravenly our peaceful countrymen, have suffered a defeat today at 10 a.m. after trying to fight with a small guerrilla expedition around the zone of Quilali under the command of the valiant captain Abram Centeno.  The two airplanes made evolutions in the air after a strong bombardment with machine guns and bombs and were perforated in the gasoline tank and were burned in the air, one of the apparatuses falling in our power also one of the aviators and the mechanic who threw bombs.  Said aviators being captured there were judged by a Council of War and shot summarily, applying to them the same law that the adventurer Feland wanted to apply to the patriot and legitimate Nicaraguan General Augusto C. Sandino when he made him an outlaw in his own country.  The other machine although it was also perforated, but managed to escape and reach Ocotal where they have a landing field.     [horizontal line]     General Echevarria:  I am well and today I will answer other correspondence and reports that have reached me.  Estrada has more than 150 men awaiting the Yankees whom they say want to reach San Juan first.  God will place obstacles in their way.  There is nothing new.    Patria y Libertad    /s/     [Engl only.  HOL.  Seems a discarded draft of Conrad #34, ACS #39.   43A/29]

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