Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 838.00/1399

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American Legation,
Port au Prince , June 5, 1916, 3 p.m.

My May 31, ten a.m. and June 1, eleven a.m. At one o’clock yesterday morning Caco chiefs Codio and Metellus and band were surrounded near Fonds Verretes and in desperate effort to escape Codio, Metellus and nine others were shot. The American forces and gendarmes are in pursuit of the other outlaws. Reports show all quiet in the provinces.

Blanchard