The Washington herald., 1914-07-14
u. S. PREPARES TO Use
FORCE IN SAN DOMINGO
Orders Issued Sending 700 Marines to
Guantanamo. Ready 10 Invade
Haiti and Sister Republic
TO END ANARcHIcAL CONDITIONS

Recognising the necessity Of taking
action with regard to the anarchical
conditions IN Haiti and Santo Domingo
the administration last night announced
the sending OF 100 marines to Guantan-
lamo, Cuba. 10 be held In readiness foI
quick movement into either country
Three hundra Of these marines will
be taken from the forces now at Vera
| Cruz. 40 from the brigade ashore, and
the balance from the battleships Texas
and New York. which have extra marine
ldetachments aboard The transport. Han
cock, after taking these marines from
/ Vera Cruz to Guantanamo, will proceed
to Norfolk and there take on board 20
more marines for Guantanamo.
The gunboat Sacramento, now at Vera
Cruz. will proceed TO Port au Prince.
The battIeship Connecticut is lying on
the Haitian port. and the battleship
South Carolina Is at Santo Domingo City.
the cruiser Washington and gunboat
Mschias. at Puerto Plata. Santo Do
mingo. and the gunboats Marietta and
castine are covering other Haitian and
Dominican ports.
Americans engaged in trade with the
two countries. particularly with Santo
Domingo. have repeatedly represented to
Secretary Bryan the losses they are suf-
fering owing to the pratices OF the con-
tending factions. In addition, IL is known
that for months European governments
have been much exercised by the in
creasing anarchical conditions.
As long as mediation proceedings re-
Earding Mexico were going on. the ad-
ministration felt constrained from re-
sorting to the use Of force in any Latin
American country, and though mediation
is now at an end. something Of that feel
ing still remains. The action announced
last night Is expected to prove only pre-
liminary TO actual Intervention in either
Haiti or Santo Domingo or both. 1t Is
not believed In Washington that the
sending OF marines to Guantanamo will
have the slightest effect on conditions in
Haiti and Santo Domingo. 1t Is. in fact.
considered extremely doubtful II many OF
the contenders in either country ever
learn of the presence Of United States
forces In Cuba.
The trouble in Haiti arises out of the
revolution started last winter by Senator
Davilmar Theodore as a result OF which
President Oreste abdicated. The United
States subsequently recognized a gov
ernment. headed by Gen Zamor, which
was not only a revolutionary govern
ment but one set up by Zamor's wrest-
ing by force Of arms the control Of the
situation from Theodore. Since then
Theodore has remained in the field. and
other obscure leaders have organized
bands of rebels which have been making
commerce and industry impossible in
most, parts Of the republic.
The situation in Haiti ard Santo Do
mingo has been disastrous automatically
for the present administration. Mr.. VIII
sons appointee as Minister to Haiti,
Madison r. Smith, was relieved and
Arthur Bailly Blanchard. a trained man
Of the diplomatic service, sent down to
take his place James r. Sullivan. a
New York lawyer and politician. ap-
pointed Minister TO Santo Domingo. has
been under fire both here and in SantU
Domingo ever since his arrival there a
year ago. ana II Huw en- route to the
United States.