The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-08
ARMY IS HELD
 IN READINESS
TRANSPORTS ORDERED EQUIPPED FOR POSSIBLE ORDERS TO
 SAIL FOR CUBA.
FOUR BIG LINERS ARE READY
Cuban Congress Votes Additional $1,ooo,0oo to Maintain Army in the FieId-Battleship at
 Guantanamo.

Washington, June 7.-The army to- day took steps to share with the navy in the American demonstration in Cuba, Early in the day tine general staff gave a preliminary test to the machine it has constructed, when iH issued orders to the quartermaster general to put in readiness for Cuban service the four big army transports at Newport News and at the same time notified the proper military off, cers at the various army posts, where are located the organizations which go to make up the "eXpeditionary force" to have the men ready to entrain at a moments notice. Within six hours word came from Quarter master General Aleshire that the big transports had been put in commis sion with full supplies and coal and augmented crews, and were ready to sail the moment the troops were placed aboard,
 The order for the transports to sail, or for the troops to entrain, was not given and it was said at the state | department that that word would not be given until the marine forces, al-
 ready landed and now being distrib-
 uted among the threatened plantations in eastern Cuba, proved insufficient
 or that conditions on the island as a
 whole had ssumed such a phase as
 to demand political intervention.
 Intervention, if determined upon
 must follow in a regular way if thu government of the United States de.
 eides to follow the Injunction laid Dy
 the judge advocate general of the ar my. Some of the requisite steps al ready have been taken Jan. 16 last
 Secretary Knox served notice upor the Cuban government that the pres.
 ident of the United States looked to il
 ''to prevent threatened situation
 which would compel the government of the United States, much against | it's desires, to consider what meas ures it must take in pursuance of the obligations of it's relations to Cuba Yet the following significant tele- 1 gram was sent to the American lega- ton in Havana for presentation to the Cuban government:
 Under the exigencies of the situa-
 ton arising out of the failure of the | Cuban authorities to take effective ac- | ton for the protection of American l life and property, the commandant at Guantanamo naval station has been compelled 10 land four companies of
 marines. This action has been taken
 as a measure of protection, only, and
 not for the purpose of putting down i the instruction, which is clearly the | duty of Cuba Four large war vessels will forthwith be sent from Key West | to Guantanamo to be in readiness in
 case the situation should unfortunate
 ly demand additional forces for the | same purpose. It is hoped these meas
 ures will at once awaken the Cuban | government to the necessity of promptly and adequately meeting and | dischargng it's duties and respOnsi- bilities, and you will vigorously i'm | press upon the president of Cuba that continued failure on the part of his | government adequately to protect lie | and property will inevitably compel | this government to intervene in Cuba
 under and in response to it's treaty rights and obligations"
 | The issue of a proclamation by | President Taft is all now necessary to meet the legal requirements prelimi- nary to intervention. Whether and
 when this last step shall be taken, de bends upon the ability of the Cuban government to deal with the insurrec'
 ton. That government will be given
 a fair chance, the manager of the Cuba Copper companys mines at El | Cobre, ten miles west of Santiago telegraphed the American legation at
 Havana that so marines were landed
 there at 7:S0 o'clock last night and
 thanked Minister Beaupre for his ex
 ertions in the company's behalf. The Ponupo- Manganese company also teie graphed thanking the minister and stating that marines were landed there at 12 o'clock last night The Pa ducah, which performed this service is now at Santiago. Eighty-five ma rines are embarking on the little Eagle for the protection of American life and property at Siboney and Daiquiri There is still no intention of send ing more battleships into Cuban wa ters and the Annapolis midshipmen
 who have been assigned to the ships already ordered to Guantanamo, vii
 be conveyed there on the cruiser Sar
 Francisco, which will carry the mid shipmen intended for the third di
 vision of the fleet now at Key West.
 Late today a message was sent tC
 the commander at Fort D. A. Russell
 Wyoming. to have signal corps com
 pany I, in readiness for possible voy
 age to Cuba.
 Major General Wood, chief of stan
 said the places of embarkation for th' lt.-.....s att f,,,a~1, garaa t if if Wpra dis