The Mahoning dispatch

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While enroute ho sent a wireless to

tho navy departmenL which waB re

ceived Wednesday morning advising

It that ho heard tho French legation

was threatened and thero was danger

to tho lives of foreigners Tho situa

tion according to Admiral Caperton

was very grave

United States Marines Land

At tho request of tho stato depart

ment tho navy department sent Ad

miral Caperton Instructions to land a

force at to guard tho le

gation and all foreigners Admiral

Caperton has with him a force of near

ly 500 men including 100 marines

Tho navy department then ordered

the collier Jason from Guanatanamo to

Port-au-Prince with 100 additional ma

rines

The official dispatch from tho United

States legation at Port-au-Prince was

given out Wednesday evening by tho

stato department

About 11 oclock Wednesday morn

ing U S cruiser Washington entered

tho harbor of Port-au-Prince Just after

the president had been taken from the

French legation by a mob Tho mob

killed and dismembered him before

tho legation They then paraded the

streets with portions of his body on

poles

Regard Situation Critical

Officials of tho state and navy de

partments regard the situation ns crit

ical and Important not only on ac

count of the activities of the mob but

because of the troublesome questions

which have arisen by the invasion of

the French legation and tho insult to

the French natlont

The violation of tho Dominican lega

tion which occurred Tuesday presents

another problem for this government

but ono hardly as grave as that in

which Franco Is concerned The mob

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The Mahoning dispatch. (1915). Canfield, Mahoning County, Ohio, 1915-07-30. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84028473/1915-07-30/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Mahoning dispatch, 1915-07-30.