Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Powell to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Santo Domingo, January 24, 1904.

(Received 8.10 p.m. January 29, 1904.)

(Mr. Powell acknowledges receipt of Department’s telegram of the 17th instant, and reports the situation unchanged. The provisional government has taken Puerto Plata, Moca, and Lavega, but has lost Macoris. The provisional government has been recognized by the United States legation as the de facto government on the 20th, Insurgents are still around the city destroying American property; the cables remain cut. The Columbia returned last night from Macoris.)