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

File No. 337.11/412

Minister Gonzales to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Legation,
Habana, April 10, 1917, 1 a.m.

Your April 7, 6 p.m. Railroad repaired to Omaja, trains running to Las Tunas ten miles west. Permanent military guard now stationed American settlement. Another detachment entering district ordered to clear surrounding country of rebels or robbers.

Have received a letter from Omaja. People suffered theft of horses and supplies. One youth reported whipped by rebels. Has been most isolated place Cuba and totally unprotected account destruction railroad bridges for hundred miles east and west.

Gonzales