File No. 837.711/18
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Cuba ( Gonzales)
[Telegram]
Washington,
March 9, 1918, 6 p.m.
Your March 9, 11 a.m. Department compliments you upon successfully arranging for censorship in Cuba of all mail in transit by Spanish steamers between Mexico and Spain and vice versa. It is important that this censorship be very carefully performed under direct American control and supervision.
Report fully by pouch upon present censorship conditions—how arranged and how functioning and position and work of American officers.
Polk