The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-06
INTERVENTION IS A REALITY
BIG FORCES OF MARINES LANDED AND WARsHlPs WEIGH AN.
 CHOIR AND SAIL FOR CUBA
Gomez Admits He Cannot Control situation-U. s. Army Officials Awaiting Orders to MoboIize
 and Board Transports.

Washington, June 5.-Frank comics ion of President Gomez that he was unable to meet the demands of the large plantation owners in eastern x Cuba for adequate guards against the maTauders and insurrectos was the factor that today prompted Captain kline, commanding the United States naval station at Guantanamo to dis- slatch nearly half of his available force of marines into the interior of Cuba. His action gave the signal for uhe departure from Key West to Guantanamo of half of the second squadron Of the Atlantic fleet, which had been lying at anchor at Key West for the last week
 The facts as disclosed at the state department are that several of the large American. British, French and Spanish companies owning plantations and mines in eastern Cuba telegraphed the Cuban government through the Alcade of Guantanamo a demand for . 300 regular troops for each of their mills and fifty for each of their cane fields. In reply President Gomez . pointed out that a compliance with . their request would require the use ! Of l.250 of his best troops for the protection of one group of foreign :. properties in single section of the disaffected district. If he acceded to sudh demand he said his whole regular army would not suffice for police work alone and he would have no forces left with which to carry on the campaign against the insur- reotionists.
 Meanwhile, complaints multiplied, the situation in Guantanamo was be- coming more alarming, and the Guan- tanamo sugar company had definite information that the rebels intendel |. to destroy oBe CT more of the foreign estates there.
 The manager of the Spanish-Ameri- can Iron Company, having declined a . meeting with a rebel leader with one hundred followers near Cuero, was threatened with the destruction of all property between that place and JuTagua
 To add to all this, the owners and representatives of several of the large American properties near Guantanamo having failed in their application to
 
 ectly to Captain Kline
 Captain Kline, judging that the gravity of the situation demanded the use of the American guards this nor ming sent 450 of his marines from the naval station by boat up Guantanamo Bay to landing place near Caimanera the terminus of the railway running mp to the city of Guantanamo. fifteen miles inland
 The gunboat Paducah about the same time reported the situation at Santiago as critical, which determined Captain Kline to call upon the navy department for more marines. Accor- dingly Admiral Osterhaus promptly dispatched from Key West to Guan- tanamo the fourth division of the At lantic fleet. comprising the battleships Chio. Missouri, Mississippi and Min nesotta They are under command Of rear-Admiral Usher, who by virtue Of his superior rank will assume com mand at Guantanamo when he arrives there Friday morning
 Admiral Usher can easily land l 1,260 marines and blue Jackets, which force,
 with the marines and and sailors available for landing parties, would make formidable little army of about 5000 men, If this force is not suffl- cient, Admiral Osterhaus remaining four vessels may be called upon for further levies. For the present it is the policy of the state department to maintain the third division of the fleet at Key West to guard against any uprising in Havana,
 Tn one way the distribution of the ,Amerinan magines as plantation guards, will serve to test the real purpose of the Cuban government. It is calculated that General Montera- gmdos troops, being relieved in large part from the onerous duty of guard ing plantations, will no longer have excuse for failing to move immedia- tely and relentlessly upon the insur- gent negroes.
 There is grave intimation in recent tradgedies that this may become an international duty If the Cuban govern ment longer delays action.
 Minister Beaupre today reported a case of horrible astrocity. which oe- cured yesterday near Sangiva, in Oriente, which is believed to be only one of many similar cases. His intof- nation derived directly from the Cuban secretary of state was to the effect that a band of negroes entered the house of former white official of prominence, tied him and his son and outraged this wife and two young daughters before his eyes. The son was killed in cold blood, while en' deavoring to break his bonds and res
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 The army continues to rather hun grily watch the unfolding of events in Cuba. Lying on General Wood s desk are messages which if released would send an army division into tan HUf