Richmond planet
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In contextEn contexto
President Woodrow Wilson ordered US Marines to occupy the Dominican Republic in May 1916. For eight years, naval governors ruled by martial decree, facing guerrilla resistance ('gavilleros') and Senate investigations.Woodrow Wilson ordenó la ocupación militar en mayo de 1916. Durante ocho años, gobernadores navales gobernaron por decreto marcial, enfrentando resistencia guerrillera ('gavilleros').
More on The 1916–1924 OccupationMás sobre La ocupación de 1916–1924
- The sun · September 12, 191912 de septiembre de 1919
- Richmond planet · September 20, 191920 de septiembre de 1919
- Richmond planet · September 20, 191920 de septiembre de 1919
SummaryResumen
A feature on the American occupation reports that 2,600 additional United States Marines, armed with hand grenades and the latest machine guns, are to be sent to San Domingo to cooperate with the 3,000 Marines already there, where Marines have been stationed for three years under a strict censorship that keeps news of the fighting from the United States. It says Dominicans hate the Americans and take shots at the uniform when they can do so safely, that officers would tell of leathernecks driven insane searching the brush for bandits, and that few of the Marines know why they are there beyond a vague idea of a debt of some $20,000,000 and the United States being in charge of the customs.
Un reportaje sobre la ocupación americana informa que 2,600 infantes de marina adicionales de los Estados Unidos, armados con granadas de mano y las ametralladoras más recientes, serán enviados a Santo Domingo para cooperar con los 3,000 infantes de marina ya allí presentes, donde los marines llevan tres años estacionados bajo una censura estricta que impide que las noticias de la lucha lleguen a los Estados Unidos. Dice que los dominicanos odian a los americanos y disparan contra el uniforme cuando pueden hacerlo sin riesgo, que los oficiales contarían de marines enloquecidos buscando bandidos entre la maleza, y que pocos de los marines saben por qué están allí más allá de una vaga idea de una deuda de unos $20,000,000 y de que los Estados Unidos están a cargo de las aduanas.
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lie knew that he wouldn't stand as
much chanco as a wax cat in a cer
tain warm climate, ho nevertheless
hesitated over agreeing to the terms
offered by the representative of Uncle
j Sam?these being unconditional sur
render. N
Just there fate took a hand. The
guns which were mounted to cover
tho city of Puerto Plata had not been
fired for some time. The soldiers
were aching to start something and
they could not understand why the
President did not order the war to
begin.
One man after imbhling more than
an ordinary man's sliaro of rum he
gun to cry. With (ears coursing down
his jetty cheeks he begged to know
why this and that was so and why
there had been no opportunity for
1;iniself and his mates to show their
bravery, their skill with the big guns,
i This thought became an obsession
i with the lachrymose one.
"By Ci'tatpCgr Colon}" he ejaculat
ed; "must 1, whose forebears landed'
in thlcs paradise of a land with the
great discoverer stand by and listen
to the orders of the Yankee dogs from
another land? Let it not he so!"
A few minutes later this man had
"begun the war." Under cove** of dark
ness he sidled up to one of the larg
est gun.? loaded the same with an ex
pl .sive slit 1" and bing! a house or
?wo in the city had been unrooCa.l
and conlus'on came.
Hardly had the echo of this shot
died away when the war ship in the
harbor hopped into action. A slavo
of six pounders was lit. back into
the hills and then to quote one of
thi- marines wjy- t<.?l< part in the
O at as, "there was hell to pay."
How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo
Richmond planet. (1919). Richmond, Va., 1919-09-20. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84025841/1919-09-20/ed-1/?sp=3
ReferencesReferencias
Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Richmond planet, 1919-09-20.
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