Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-01-18
US. THREATENS
70 INTERVENE
AGAIN IN CUBA
President Gomez Warned
THAT Activity of the Mill
tary in Political Affairs
Must be Stopped.
ARMY READY TO ACT
ON SHORT NOTICE

War Department Officials,
However, Do Not Expect
to be Ordered South ;
Think Cubans Will Hedge
washington, D. c., Jan. 17.-Having
,erved notice on President Gomez .
government that the United States
expects Cuba to live up to her treaty
engagements and maintain repuoll-
man form of government,y the state
department now is awaiting develop
ments. Officials here are connoeh'
that when the Cubans understand the
motive of the United States is simply
to o,scharge it's treaty obligations,
there will will be little dissatisfaction
outside of the veterans organization.
So well laid are the plans of the gen.
eral staff Of the army, that news OF
the possibility of Intervention IN
Cuba has caused scarcely a ripple at
Headquarters here Should 1t become
necessary to send troops to Cuba. the
whole mechanism of the transporta-
tion and mobilization services could
he in operation with few hours ana
probably within two days the hrst
army transport would be sailing for
Havana with full regiment of lnfan'
try aboard. Long before that trans
mort had reached Cuban waters, sew
eral American battleships would be
lying Oh proper strategic points on
the Cuban coast.
War department officials, however,
ID not EXPECT any such orders and the
Atlantic feet is calmly pursuing the
routine of wire drills of the south
Goa Of Cuba in little expectation Of
being called on for active service.
Warning Given by Government.
The state department has served
notice on President Gomez that the
United States will intervene IN cuba
II further attempts are made by the
veterans organization to nulllfy the
law prohibiting the interference OF
the military in political affalrs IN
Cuba.
The attitude of the United States
% shown in the following note present
I'd to the Cuban government:
"The situation in Cuba as now re-
ported causes grave concern to the
government of the United States.
THAT the laws intended to safe
guard free republican government
shall be enforced and not defled is
obviously essential to the maintenance
Of the law, order and stability indis-
pensable to the status of the republic
If Cuba, in the continued we'll being
If which the United States has al
ways evinced and cannot escape W.T.
ii interest.
"The presidentfof the United States
therefore looks 10 the president and
government of Cuba to prevent the
threatened situation which would COM
pel the government of the United
States, much against it's desires, to
consider what measures 1t must take
In pursuance of the Obligations OF It's
relations to Cuba"
Tie notification of the American
government was served upon Presi-
dent Gomez through American Minis
ter Beaupre at Havana. Senor Mar
tin-Rivero, Cuban minister to the
United States, was unapprised of the
action except through the press and
declined to comment upon it.
1t was on reports Of American Min
hter Beaupre that yesterdays note
was based. Minister Beaupre report
ed yesterday from Havana that, in de-
fiance of q decree issued i President
Gomez forbidding officers of the army
and rural guard to participate In poll
tics-which also is prohibited by mill
tary law-many army officers and
rurals attended meeting Sunday
OF the National Council Of Veterans,
an organization of veterans Of the
Cuban war for independence.
Armed Revolt Feared.
Accompanying the report was code
letter to1he state department setting
forth that the action of the military
arm of the Cuban government in at
tending the meeting of the veterans
association council was considered thei
first step toward an armed revolt
against the present administration in
Cuba, and that some attention must
be given the action by this govern
ment.
Secretary of State Knox immediate
ly laid the matter before the presi-
dent. The president put it before the
cabinet Tuesday.
The result was the issuance of fol-
lowing note to President Gomez:
Havana Quiet Today.
Havana, Cuba, Jan. 17.-Absolute
tranquility reigns in Havana today, in
spite Of the spock of the announce