File No. 838.00/1342.
Chargé Johnson to the Secretary of State.
Santo Domingo, September 29, 1915.
Dominican Government has promised after full discussion to send telegraphic instructions to governor of Monte Christi to instruct all Dominican frontier officials to lend cooperation and support to frontier guard; to arrest all suspicious Dominicans and Haitian refugees and to induce Madaneroca to go to and remain Monte Christi. Assembled Generals Bobo and Sanchez, friends of Arias in Haitian revolution, summoned to and now in capital, have been induced by the President to promise to desist from unlawful acts; President maintains Arias’s friends no longer hold office along frontier. Believe frontier guard can under existing border conditions do much to prevent unlawful use Dominican territory besides merely enforcing customs and embargo laws.
Haitian Minister informed me Monday that he was about to make protest to Dominican Government re matters referred to in your telegram.