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T R A N
S C R I P
T I O N
PROVISIONAL BATTALION,
LOS ROBLES,
26 February 1928.
Patrol Report No. 1.
I cleared Los Robles at 1400-24 February
with a guide and fourteen men with
orders to investigate bandit activities
at Salvador Gutierrez house at Paso
Real. Arrived at Paso Real at 1530 and
at Salvador Gutierrez house, which is
also a store, at 1540. Gutierrez himself
was not there and no information could
be gotten from the men or women in the
store.
From the story a part of eight horsemen
were seen to pass about a mile away on a
mountain side. It could not be seen
whether or not they were armed. They
soon disappeared into woods.
A native met on the road said that
Joaquin Lobo a jefe of Sandino's passed
through Paso Real yesterday, February
23, going toward Jinotega. He was
unaccompanied.
Return to Los Robles was made by a more
easterly road. Arrived at Los Robles at
1830.
No signs or information of bandit
activities were received. Most natives
professed ignorance of any bandit
activities whatever and the general
impression received as that they were
unfriendly toward Marines.
/s/ S. E. Ridderhof, with column
1st Lieutenant, USMC., Bn-3.
127/43A/20
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