File No. 839.00/1939
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Santo Domingo, October 30, 1916, 4 p.m.
Your October 28, 6 p.m., received today. Consulted on Prairie Admiral Pond, Colonel Pendleton; I think forces ample thirty days. Situation sufficiently under control not to require martial law and its immediate declaration would not have satisfactory effect under present conditions. Disturbances last week sporadic and martial law could hardly entirely prevent similar outbreaks, although if in force would prove advantageous many ways and I respectfully suggest that future necessity might be question of serious consideration. Death of Captain Low probably due to absence of impressive force.