File No. 838.00/1422
Minister Blanchard to the Secretary of State
Port au Prince, November 4, 1916, 6 p.m.
That supervision of sanitation and public works under Article XIII rests with Oberlin is understood but such expression to the Haitian Government has not cleared the situation relative thereto, [Page 366] as that Government demands the turnover to it of all work under the occupation. Sanitary and repair works now being done by occupation under martial law remain so for military reasons and cooperation of Oberlin therein is inadmissible. The first part of Article XIII indicates plainly that the works above mentioned have nothing to do with the sanitation and public improvement therein contemplated and they in no way interfere with the operation of the article in question.