The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-11
RAIN CALLS HALT
 ON HAVANA RIOTS
DISTURBANCES AT CUBAN CAP lTAL CEASES WHILE ToRREN-
 TtAL RAIN IS FALLING.
American Warships in Harbor Ex, peoted to Have Soothing Effect
 on Race Mobs.

Havana, June 10 Interest in Fla yana centered tonight in the prob able outcome of Colonel oreste Ferrera's mission 10 Washington, which is generally believed to be for the purpose of convincing the Amer ican government there does not ex- ist any necessity for intervention The campaign in Oriente and all questions bearing on the race animos- ities have become insignificant as compared with the possibility of in- teryention. The impending arrival of the United States battleships Ne braska and New Jersey from Key West tends to strength the belief that the United States is about to take a leading hand in Cuban affairs
 All danger of racial disturbances in Havana has apparently been dis si1ated by the arrival of Rear Ad- miral Osterhaus flagship Washing ton and the battleship Rhode Island this afternoon, one of the Amer ican bluejackets were allowed ashore.
 Colonel Ferrera sent a cablegram to President Gomez tonight in which he states that the United States did not contemplate intervention but would persist in it's policy of afford ing military protection to the foreign properties
 Admiral Osterhaus and the Amer ican legation were without informa- tion tonight regarding the dispatch of two additional battleships to Ha- vana The Cuban government ac- knowleded that it had been informed that additional warships were on their way but declined to make comment. Presidential Secretary Ramirez, on behalf of the president, made the fol- lowing statement to the Associated Press:
 According to the news published in the local press. the arrival of two American ships today is due to alarm ing reports sent to Washington, which is lamentable. The recent events in Havana lack importance, the police having promptly quelled the disorder Such events occur in all countries without exciting comment more than do strikes in the United States
 Tt is lamentable because the Cu- ban people have warm affection for the United States and are sur prised and hurt that warships are sent here for the protection of inter- ests which none have attacked or will attack"
 Hardly a visible ripple of popular interest attended the arrival this aft ernoon of the United States armored cruiser Washington, the flagship of Admiral Osterhaus, and the battle ship Rhode Island, freighted, as both are supposed to be, with weighty in- iluences on Cuba's fate Behind this apparent apathy however, was gen eral, but suppressed impression that the coming of the ships pOrtended the long dreaded American intervention
 Hardly two score loungers, gathered on the malecon, witnessed the ar rival of the ships. which anchored near the Cuban cruisers Cuba and Patria After "Jratiuque" was given by the health officer, the only official Cuban recognition, except visit to the flagship uf a representative of the captain of the port, Admiral Oster haus and staff went to the American legation to make an official visit tc Arthur NJ Beaupre, the minister Later Mir. Beaupre. accompanied by H. S. Gibson and Edward Bell, the secretaries of the legation, visited tho Washington.
 ! The American minister this morn