339.3921L96/25a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in the Dominican Republic (Russell)
Washington, October
8, 1920—6 p.m.
38. Cable Department immediately whether instruction of the Secretary of the Navy to suspend all proceedings in connection with the recent trial by court martial of certain Dominican journalists has resulted in the suspension of the sentence of Fabio Fiallo and whether he has yet been placed at liberty. Advise Department at the same time whether any journalists or publishers are now imprisoned for similar offenses committed since the relaxation of the censorship.
Davis