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

File No. 838.00/1224.

Chargé Davis to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams.]

American Legation,
Port au Prince, July 29, 1915.

Marines and bluejackets landed yesterday afternoon at about 4 o’clock after Captain E. L. Beach had delivered a letter from Admiral Caperton addressed to the committee of safety stating that the landing was entirely friendly and for the preservation of order and protection of legations, etc. Conference today at the Legation with the committee of safety and an agreement made that this committee would disarm all Haitian soldiers before tomorrow night. City quiet now.

Davis.