Line 3.0.0 near the Costa Rica border, was

Line 3.0.1 almost wiped out in an encounter

Line 3.0.2 with a Panama police squad.

Line 3.0.3 Ten members of the colony, includ-

Line 3.0.4 ing three women, were killed, six

Line 3.0.5 were wounded, and several survivors

Line 3.0.6 have been imprisoned.

Line 3.0.7 The Germans opened fire on the

Line 3.0.8 police, but they were outnumbered and

Line 3.0.9 out-gunned.

Line 3.0.10 The battle took place at Cotito vil-

Line 3.0.11 lage, 20 miles south of the Costa Rica -

Line 3.0.12 Panama border, after the Panama

Line 3.0.13 police insisted on the colonists com-

Line 3.0.14 plying with immigration and other

Line 3.0.15 laws.

Line 3.0.16 The United Press says that the area

Line 3.0.17 has been settled by Germans, most of

Line 3.0.18 whom are strongly pro-Nazi. The

Line 3.0.19 police asked to be allowed to examine

Line 3.0.20 the Germans' papers, but the colonists

Line 3.0.21 refused, claiming that they were Mem-

Line 3.0.22 bers of a religious sect, which exemp-

Line 3.0.23 ted them. The Government insisted

Line 3.0.24 that the examination should be car-

Line 3.0.25 ried out and sent a large body of

Line 3.0.26 police, after which fighting began.

Line 3.0.27 It was reported that the Costa Rican

Line 3.0.28 Government had advised Panama of

Line 3.0.29 the operations of alleged Nazi radio