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

File No. 838.00/1221.

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American Legation,
Port au Prince, July 28, 1915—11 a.m.

At 10.30 mob invaded French Legation, took out President, killed and dismembered him before Legation gates. Hysterical crowds parading streets with portions of his body on poles.

U. S. S. Washington entering harbor.

Davis.