File No. 837.00/1412
The Special Agent in Cuba (Consul General Morgan) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Santiago de Cuba,
August 22, 1917, 5 p.m.
The Department’s policy in sending a regiment of Marines to Guantanamo, as intimated in its instructions of August 18, is a source of gratification to all the planters in this end of the Island, and I can assure the Department that this will be a guarantee that there will be no destruction of property in this end of the Island during the next grinding season. Contradictory newspaper reports in regard to the sending of troops had caused much anxiety here among the planters.
Morgan