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

File No. 882.00/539

The Secretary of State to Minister Curtis

Department of State,
Washington, August 24, 1916.

Sir: The Department has read with gratification your dispatch No. 26 of June 13, 1916, in regard to the crushing of the Kru revolt by the detachment of the Liberian Frontier Force commanded by Lieutenant William Roundtree, as a result of which the South Liberian Coast is controlled by the Liberian Government.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

John E. Osborne.