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

File No. 838.00/761.

Minister Smith to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Legation,
Port au Prince, January 23, 1914.

National Bank of Haiti, as creditor of the Government, protests to this Legation against the seizure of the custom house at Cape Haitien by rebels, and requests the “exercise of such influence as is possible to protect said creditors”

Smith

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