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

File No. 337.11/350

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Department of State,
Washington, March 27, 1917, 8 p.m.

Cuba Company reports to Department 1,500 rebels visited Jobabo, Oriente Province March 18, looting and destroying property, threatening destruction to mill. American and British employees in danger. Have no reports since eighteenth.

Investigate as to conditions at Jobabo, and advise Department what efforts Cuban Government is making for protection there.

Lansing