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

File No. 337.11/440

The Secretary of State to Minister Gonzales

[Telegrams]

Department of State,
Washington, April 16, 1917, 2 p.m.

Department is informed from several sources that condition of American settlers at La Gloria, Riverside, Garden City, Palm City, Canet Minas near Camaguey is desperate; that rebels are robbing food supplies, horses, ammunition and threatening burn houses. You are requested to make immediate and urgent demand of Cuban Government for protection of these colonists.

Report by cable.

Lansing