Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 839.00/695.]

The American Minister to the Dominican Republic to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Santo Domingo, October 25, 1912.

The Commissioners think the Wheeling, Prairie and collier should be immediately supplemented with two more gunboats. No more marines needed at present; none yet landed. Doyle expects to meet Horacio Vásquez in a couple of days. New cabinet not yet announced. Things moving slowly.

Russell.