The daily sentinel., 1912-06-07
0RDEP ARMY
TO M|IVEON
CUBA
Five Thousand TT : Despatched to
Transports P0 aratoty to
Sailing to Cuba.
MARINES ARE ALREADY THERE
Vigorous Campaign is Promised to
Protect American Citizens and
Property in Little Republic.
Associated Press.

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Washington, d. c.. June THE
general staff of the army issued pre-
paratory orders today for the dispatch
of a military expedition of 5000
troops to Cuba. Four big army
transports at Newport News were
ordered to be put in commission. pro-
visioned and supplied. The troops
Will be drawn from Plattsburg bar
racks, Fort Porter. Niagara and Gov
ernor's Island, New York. and Fort
Mcpherson and Oglethorpe in Geor-
gia.
The order to land troops in Cuba.
preceded by the actual landing of
marines by Captain Kline was the re-
suit OF the admission by President
GomeZ that he was unable to meet
the demands of plantation managers
in eastern Cuba for protection
Minister Beaupre today reported a
case OF horrible atrocity which oc-
CURED yesterday near Saviga in ORR
ente. His information. derived di-
rectly from the Cuban secretary of
state, was that a band of negroes.
entered the house of former white
ottlcial of prominence tied him and
his son and outraged his wife and
two Saung. sdaughiers before his ewes
The son was killed while endeavor-
ing to break HIS bonds and rescue his
mother and sisters
Reports come from various parts of
the Interior of outrages against white
women by negroes. One case is that
of a school mistress, who later died
in a hospital at Santiago.
Captain Klines action in dispatch
ing nearly half his available force in
TO the interior of Cuba gave the sig
nal for the departure from Key West
10 Huantanamo of half of the second
squadron of the Atlantic fleet.
The facts as disclosed at the state
department are that several of the
large American, British. French and
Spanish companies operating planta-
tions and mines in eastern Cuba
telegraphed the Cuban government n
demand for 100 regular troops for
each of their mills and fifty for each
of their cane fields
President Gomez pointed out that
compliance with their request
would require the use of ,25O of
his best troops for the protection of
one group of foreign properties. If he
acceded to such demands, he said. his
Whole regular army would not suf-
nee Tor police work alone,
The gunboat Paducah about the
same time reported the situation at
Santiago as critical which determin-
ed Captain Kline to call upon the
navy department for more marines.
Accordingly Admiral Osterhaus dis
patched from Key West to Guantan-
amo the fourth division of the Allan
tic fleet. comprising the battIeships
ONO, Missouri Mississippi and Min
nesota. They are under command of
Rear Admiral Usher, who will assume
command at Guantanamo when he
arrives tomorrow morning.
Admiral Usher can land 1.5OO ma
rines and hluejackets. This force,
With the marines and sailors availa-
BILE for landing parties, would make
@ formidable army of about $500
men.
Altogether the four battlesbiDs
which PUT out from Key West late
Yesterday have on board nearly 500
marines.
1t is estimated that / 900 Amerf-
can marines would be fully equivalent
TO five times that number of Cuban
regular soldiers.
Santiago, Cuba, June THE gun
hoat Padueah landed so marines last
night at ElcuT1 mines, and so ma
'tnes at Punta De Sal
TODAY's WHEAT MARKET.
Chicago, June July wheat to-
day closed, at 11O!s.