Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 337.11/279

The Secretary of State to Minister Gonzales

[Telegrams]

Department of State,
Washington, March 15, 1917, 8 p.m.

American interests owning Compañía Química de la Gloria at Colombia, Camaguey Province, request protection for its property, damaged and threatened with destruction. Large stores of general merchandise and provisions have been confiscated.

You are instructed to demand adequate protection for these American interests from the Cuban Government.

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