Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 839.00/1225.

The Chargé d’Affaires of the Dominican Republic to the Secretary of State.

[Translation.]

No. 39.]

Dominican Legation,
Washington, May 14, 1914.

Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform you that by a cablegram dated yesterday and received to-day my Government informs me that because of the state of rebellion existing in the cities of Puerto Plata and Monte Cristi and as a measure tending to restore peace, the ports of Puerto Plata and Monte Cristi have been declared closed to commerce and blockaded.

I avail [etc.],

I. A. Cernuda

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