817.00/5646: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:45 p.m.]
209. General Feland states that all available information points to the conclusion that the greater part of the Sandinista forces amounting to approximately 275 men are in the region between the Pis Pis mining district, Bocay, Coco River and Wasspuc River. The marines are closing in on them and preventing their escape to the south, east, or northeast. If this conclusion is confirmed the only escape for this force is into Honduras or up the Coco. The latter route would be very difficult and troops from Segovia are disposed so as to intercept them.
It seems certain that the main object of the Pis Pis raid was to procure ammunition and that this object was not attained. All of the outlaws are still very short of ammunition and very few recruits were obtained by them in the mining region.
General Feland also believes that his troops are properly disposed to prevent the entrance of the outlaws into any other populated part of the country should the above conclusions as to their whereabouts prove incorrect.