Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 839.00/1701.

Minister Sullivan to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams.]

American Legation,
Santo Domingo, May 12, 1915—10 a.m.

Your May 10, 6 p.m. Ovendo’s band defeated and scattered. Dominican Government vigilant and taking rigorous measures. Although on the surface peace reigns activities of the Government has created tenseness and the President confidentially informs me cartridges exhausted and urges point made by him in my telegram of April 24, 11 a.m. Request for munitions instead of money would seem to indicate sincerity and believe it should be granted.

Sullivan.