The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-17
INTERVENTION IN
CUBA POSSIBLE
United States Does Not Con-
slider the Question in Is
land Settled
GERMANS REPORTED
TO BE STILL ACTIVE
Transport Dixie Is Watching the In
termed Steamships - Cruiser Cuba
Moved to More Advantageous Position
Havana Under Martial Law.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Gu
ban situation is far from considered
settled by this government officially.
While there has been no definite talk
Of intervention. it is positively known
such Q step is within the bounds of pos
sitiity
German plotting and sinister German
influence in the island republic are not
broken.
The capture Of Jose Miguel Gomez,
inSlrqent leader. heralded at first as
smo Shine the German conceived insur
rcction, has failed to uuel the trouble
Official reports to Washington from
this government S diplomatic, consular
and naval officials in Cuba have con
yiltcd Washington officials that
chanccS Of a return to peace there still
are remote.
Guerrilla warfare continues. In some
sections il is spreading faster than it
is being stamped out Accompanying
it ] more destruction Of property than
90 eminent officials here viii admit.
These frankly admit that they are
HELPLESS 10 a great extent in the matter
Of mining down German plottcrs
against the United states who have
their headauarters in Cuba.
Such plottcrs. II has been spnorted
here, have a double purpose. One is
to Give the United States all the
trouble possihlc-to draw this govern
mcut s attention away as far as pos
sibIr from Europe: the other is the
use of Cuba as the most strategic point
for secret wireless stations. perhans
and as the best stamping ground for
amy Of the many moves German spies
and German military workers might de-
sire 10 make in the event Of hostilities
between the United States and Ge.-
mnpv.
Germany s plottings as regards Mex
icC--reEcaled IN the notorious thinner
mann Japan exico lctters-officials
admit. are n criterion of what could
be expected rs regards Cuba and Sonth
ard Central American countries Tint
afford submarine base possibilities in
the vicinity not only of the United
States but the Panama canal.
f!iis government Just nov is partitu-
| larlv interested in what IS going on
aboard the iutcrned German and AUS
tri?n liners at Havana and other Cuban
lpor's.
| This interest recently has become SO
kcea that the United states transport
4 lhiSj" has moved toward the Havana
/ harhor entrance and anchored between
the entrance and the Austrian ana Ger
man boats, with her six-inch rifles
trained ''where they would do most
good.
tho cruiser Cuba, too, in the past
twenty four hours has moved into a
more advantageous anchorage.
| These war vessel moves have started
many Wild rumors One of them is that
one or more OF the interned merchant
i men has received secret orders and i
PREPARED for an attempted dash to SEQ
should war declaration come. Other
rumors are that arms and ammunition
have been smugglcd aboard these ships
which, should clash to the open sea
succeed, would hc fitted out as com
mcrcc raiders.
HAVANA, March l7.-Despite gen
crai belief that the revolution is broken
Havana is still under what practically
amounts to martial law. Moreover, the
city army guards are taking nc
chances
Every automobile and street ca,
passing outside the city limits i.
thoroughly searched, particularly fol
arms.
Pablo Desvernine. secretary of state
for Cuba; Cristobal Bidcgararz. counsel
lor for the Cuban state department. and
Alfredo f. Lombard, a lawyer are en-
route to Washington to present to the
American administration the Conserve
tive party IS side in the recent revolu.
Ition They expect TO see Secretary OF
State Lansing and will be ready, il dc
sired, to reveal Cuba S true situation